United Reservation Services Exposes Top Travel Scams for this Holiday Season
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
United Reservation Services wants travelers to be safe while traveling this
holiday season, and so they have constructed a guide as to how to best avoid
travel scams.
Los Angeles, California -- United Reservation Services knows how important
vacations are to people who live incredibly busy and hectic day-to-day lives. A
vacation is a time to let go, and relax both physically and mentally. The last
thing a traveler wants from a vacation is more stress. Unfortunately, there are
criminals out there who specifically target travelers, and have the potential to
financially rip-off the unaware target. These criminals are very good at
deception, and even the most careful traveler can fall victim to a travel scam.
The best defense against these scams is to simply be aware of their existence.
United Reservation Services is alerting travelers to be very cautious when
giving out financial information over the telephone. One of the most common ways
that criminals gain access to a person's financial accounts is by deceiving the
individual into thinking that they are actually a representative from a travel
agency, or other legitimate business. The criminal might find just enough
personal information from the victim's public social media profiles, to sound
like they are looking over the victim's file. This danger should also be taken
into consideration whenever social media is being used, as users may accidently
post personal information for the public to see.
Sometimes criminals take a more aggressive attitude with the bogus
representative scheme, and will end up harassing the target, pressuring them
into giving up personal information, stating that there was a system error and
they will lose membership or a membership perk, if they do not verify their
information over the phone. If this occurs, United Reservation Services
recommends that the individual hang-up the phone call, and look up the official
telephone number for the business that the caller allegedly represents. If the
claim is legitimate, the business will have a record of the call going out. If
not, then it was certainly a criminal attempting to steal information.
As mentioned earlier, United Reservation Services suggests that people planning
a vacation refrain from posting their vacation plans to public social media
accounts. Ideally, refrain from posting them to begin with. The logic behind
this suggestion is that if, say, a Facebook friend's account gets broken into by
a criminal that figured out the password, that criminal will then see where the
traveler posted that they were away on vacation. Now a criminal knows that the
person likely isn't home, and break-ins may occur. Refrain from posting vacation
photos until the vacation has ended, and everyone is back home.
United Reservation Services hopes that these tips and suggestions better equip
travelers in being more aware of some of the latest travel scams that criminals
are using. By working with both members and non-members, United Reservation
Services knows that winter 2013 can be the safest travel season yet.
United Reservation Services Contact:
http://www.unitedreservationservices.com
1-877-840-5535
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