Airline tickets are being used by a number of people all around the world and they know the importance. If someone finds that these airline tickets are not expensive than buying a new car, it seems adventurous to the people that are normally travel by air. But, it looks like a business that is providing free traveling or it can be a part of advertising for promotion. The Southwest Airlines is considered one of the major airlines in the United States. This airline is also considered the biggest low-cost carrier in the world. This airline has been enforced periodically in a number of online scams of “free ticket” in the last couple of years.
The social media users discovered posts in the month of February 2016 that was appeared from the Southwest Airlines. Most of the posts indicated that the airline is offering to give away four tickets to Las Vegas by spending 5,000 U.S dollars to those Facebook users who liked and shared the specific page. The initial type of free ticket fraud is considered “sweepstakes scam” and it involved more victims because it was difficult to cancel due to “Reward Offers”. A number of scammers started spreading links from e-mail and Facebook offering free airline tickets. We have found that “free ticket” offers are related by accepting their terms and user allows to receive telemarketing phone calls and messages from a number of companies. It is important that these web pages were not related to or sponsored by the Southwest Airlines.