Hot on the heels of the “free Starbucks giftcards” nonsense from last week comes a number of Tumblr accounts compromised and serving up “Free Southwest Airlines tickets” posts.
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The Tumblr user is promised “2 free Southwest tickets” via a fake “Tumblr Staff Blog”, and everyone affected has this written underneath the image file:
“Just printed out my tickets to California!! WoooHoo!!! heres the link!!!”
The link in question will take you to various offers depending on which region the end-user is located in, but this would be the ideal match:
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As before, the end-user is required to fill in “two reward offers from each of the silver and gold page options and nine reward offers from the platinum reward page and refer three friends to do the same”.
Good luck with that.
Tumblr users should avoid any and all instances where an “Adult Verification” popup asks for login credentials, and removing popups from their own compromised Tumblrs can be done by following these simple steps.
Christopher Boyd