Scam Type
Travel/Vacation/Timeshare Scam
Date Reported
2023-05-22 00:00:00
Victim Postal Code
None
Total Dollars Lost
5000
Scam Description
The issue reported is a a sophisticated scam scheme with a fake flight ticket agency currently using name/domain “https://www.mangoflights.com”.
Previous name was “http://airtrvl.com/” (you can check they are the same on archive.org, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20220429230341/http://airtrvl.com/ )
The way they work is:
– advertise on Facebook & co promising big discounts
– convince the “customer” the credit card is not working and they need to make a bank transfer to a Lithuania bank account
– reinvest part of the “incomes” in bogus reviewers
– this is the most scaring part, there are hundreds if not thousand of fake reviews, leading to most “trust” site giving the site a 100% trust
– when enough customers start flagging the site, they move to a new domain
– note the current one looks like 14 years old, but in reality it was on sale and bougth just a few months ago (again, this can be verified on archive.org).
I have a close friend that got fished for a flight to Argentina, of course he never got the flight ticket.
