Fraudulent methods of selling Tet holiday flight tickets at 'discounted' prices online have emerged

With only a few months left until Lunar New Year 2025, Vietnam Airlines and authorities have recorded a number of cases where websites, organizations, and individuals claiming to be agents of the airline have launched sophisticated tricks and schemes to sell cheap Lunar New Year 2025 flight tickets to deceive customers.

Specifically, some websites have similar domain names, which can easily confuse customers, such as: vietnamairslines.com; vietnamaairlines.com; vietnamairlinesvn.com; vemaybayvietnam.com.

These websites have the same address name, interface, color, and logo design as the official VNAs website, so it is difficult to distinguish them from the official Vietnam Airlines website (https://www.vietnamairlines.com).

The subjects impersonated to sell Tet At Ty 2025 flight tickets to scam.

The above-mentioned subject's method is usually to impersonate a level 1 ticket agent of Vietnam Airlines. When customers complete procedures to buy flight tickets, they will receive a booking code as a security deposit and a warning to pay immediately or the booking will be canceled. After receiving the money, the subject does not issue tickets and cuts off contact.

Transactions are made online, after payment customers only receive a booking code but the agent does not issue tickets.

Because the booking code has not been issued to the airline ticket, it will automatically cancel after a while and the customer will only know about this when checking in at the airport.

Additionally, some subjects send emails or text messages informing customers that they have “won a prize” or received a flight ticket promotion.

When customers access the attached link and provide information, the scammer will steal credit card information or request payment. In addition to the above method, many scammers, after receiving money from customers, still issue tickets but then refund the tickets (paying a refund fee) and taking most of the ticket price that the buyer paid.

Faced with the above sophisticated tricks, the Department of Information Security ( Ministry of Information and Communications ) recommends that people who need to book airline tickets, train tickets, etc. should conduct transactions through the official website, mobile application or directly at the ticket office and official agent of the airline.

Customers who buy flight tickets on the website need to pay special attention to accessing the correct official address of the airline or contacting the hotline directly if they need answers or direct support related to booking and purchasing tickets.

If you receive offers for airline tickets that are too cheap compared to the airline's information, do not rush to book tickets but check again because it may be a trick of bad guys with the purpose of fraud. Do not access strange links or download applications of unknown origin to avoid device control and property theft.

In case of suspicion of being scammed, people need to immediately report to the authorities or report via the Vietnam Information Security Warning System (canhbao.khonggianmang.vn) for timely support, resolution and prevention.

Chi Hieu

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