Fake Airline Ticket Spam Taking Off

Is your wish to spend the upcoming holidays in Hawaii or the Bahamas? With the recent increase in the volume of airline ticket spam, spammers have made it seem easy to grab cheap (or even free) airline tickets to your favorite destinations. During the holiday season many people travel to visit family and friends. In the current economic environment, cheap deals on airfare will attract users’ attention and spammers take full advantage of this fact.
Symantec researchers are observing an increase in spam that is offering cheap airline tickets or gift vouchers to use towards a purchase of airline tickets. Spam messages are originating with spoofed email addresses, such as “AirlineTickets@spam-domain” and “Free.Airline.Tickets@spam-domain.” The link provided in the message redirects the user to an online form where the user’s personal information and credit card details are requested.
The top 20 headlines used in airline ticket spam are as follows:

Subject: RE: 2 Airline Tickets
Subject: Fly the skies with cheap airfares.
Subject: Fly Anywhere in the U.S.
Subject: 2 Round Trip Airline tickets. Fly anywhere in the US
Subject: Airfare on us - with this Airlines Reward Card
Subject: Airline ticket bookings made easier.
Subject: Airline tickets. The quickest way to anywhere.
Subject: Airline tickets to any place in the world.
Subject: Amazing deals across all airlines.
Subject: Book cheap airline tickets now!
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