Scam Type
Travel/Vacation/Timeshare Scam
Business Name Used
BudgetAir
Date Reported
Sep 29, 2022
Victim Postal Code
75013
Total Dollars Lost
0
Scam Description
BudgetAir has been conducting a full scam operation and can’t continue to do business in any country. This is a disguised scam to obtain personal identifiable information, charge individual’s credit cards and run away with it.
The victims need to provide their personal identifiable information: Full name, address, birth date, credit card numbers. Their email replies contain grammar, concordance, and punctuation error, which is typical on scamming emails.
After searching for flight on www.skyscanner.com users can be routed to www.Budgetair.com
After booking the flight customers only receive a notification with a bogus number about their booking but no ticket information, no airline reservation.
No airline confirmation after several hours or days of purchase. If customers call the airlines the booking doesn’t exist. Customers are told to wait 24 hrs for their ticket. That’s an absurd. In most cases, 24 hours elapse, the credit card purchase charge goes through and tickets are not delivered.
That is the time window they need to them charge the full ticket to customers credit cards. Then, the non-existing flights are “cancelled” and customers are NEVER refunded their purchase.
If a customer requests cancellation within 1 hour from purchase, they still receive an email notification about a cancellation charge that was not previously discussed, and the original purchase goes through.
The company DOES NOT provide a contact phone number or customer service. The “chat” function is a mockery to common sense.
See their reviews. This can’t continue. Please help us! This is a scam!!
It seems their main business is to attract purchases and then live off the cancellation fees or the full ticket prices which never are
refunded.
The victims need to provide their personal identifiable information: Full name, address, birth date, credit card numbers. Their email replies contain grammar, concordance, and punctuation error, typical of scamming emails.
