A Florida widow has been forced to miss her husband's funeral after being scammed by a fake $988 airline ticket. Joanne Stainer, 79, said she planned to travel from Orland Sandford International ...

Online users shared a made-up story about the Indian-born executive. The story originated in YouTube videos created with artificial-intelligence.

One common scam involves fake vacation rentals that are nonexistent ... He had to pay $1,596 for a ticket on another airline. But when Mayer called United to get this resolved, the airline offered ...

The most common fraud affecting airlines is people paying for tickets using stolen or fake credit cards. “We’re seeing fraud reaching pretty significant volumes,” Kristian Gjerding ...

Last year, some 4,700 travellers fell victim to such scams, which included fake airline tickets. On average those affected lost £1,500 each in 2017, according to the police, a 25% rise on the ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD), has fuelled publicity and controversy in equal measure – including a police investigation – with a mail-drop of fake plane tickets for “illegal immigrants”.