There was news about a college girl in Nanchang, who planned a Beijing Tours, and booked Beijing Flights. However, it was during the National holidays, the flights tickets were hard to purchase. The college girl lacked necessary vigilance and was defrauded 2800RMB. We should take care of some traps when booking flight tickets. 
During the national holidays, Li in Nanchang planned to Beijing for a travel. Her parents advised her to take flights in case of crowded transportation. For convenience, Li would like to book the tickets through the Internet. After searching, she found a blog in which there were some booking numbers, so she called to get some relevant information. Then the blogger acquired Li to remit the ticket money 299RMB to specified Bank Card. After they receiving money, they will give informs to her.
However, when Li was remitting the money through the China Agriculture Bank ATM, she mistaken the 299RMB to 229RMB, then she called the blogger to ask advices. The reply was only remit 299RMB again could she get back the mistaken 229RMB.
Hearing that, Li remit 299RMB again. When operating it over, the blogger asked Li how much money she left in her account, Li told him there were more than 2200RMB in it without any hesitation. Then the blogger acquired Li to input transferring NO 210907 in the transferring item. At that time, the blogger was always urging her to hurry up for it is late. If not appropriate, the tickets would be sold out. After Li inputting the first number, she was required to input another one, NO 16908.
When it was all over, the blogger told Li to check in 10 minutes, all the money would be turned back. But in ten minute, Li found only 9RMB left in her account. She called back but the number was out of service.
It is apparent Li was defrauded. She called the police and asked them for help. Currently, there are many websites providing flights tickets services. Some illegal ones defrauded travelers taking advantages of customers’ hurry and time lack. Even someone will use techniques to make the fraud seemed like a real one. For example, some traveler will received some information showing they have already booked tickets successfully. But the money is actually sent to the Airline but to cheaters’ accounts. When the time is up, the successful record will be cancelled. Traveler cannot contact those websites. The money was in a loss.
With the development of science and technology, bank on line, stock on line, shopping on line, paying and booking on line have become a common phenomenon in society. Some banks are preparing for deals security on line. While there are three channels for the tickets selling on line. Firstly, some airline companies provide internet service on their official website. Secondly, there are some distribution agencies. Lastly, there are some large scale e-business companies. The websites technology is always advancing, different defrauds are occurred, they publish promotions on blog with the titles such as discounted tickets to attract travelers.
So traveler should be careful when they book air tickets on line. It is easy to get cheated. So when others acquire you to remit money, you should search enough information about the company and website to make sure it is safe. Besides, when booking flights tickets on line, you had better choose the authoritative companies or websites. Some official websites of air companies will avoid the danger.
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