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Qatar Airways fake booking confirmation

A "thank you for booking" email with a reference number and a link to "view the details of this request". No booking exists; the link leads to a page that collects personal details or serves a download.

Impersonates
Qatar Airways
Arrives by
email
First seen
2019-04
Last seen
2019-04
Specimens
1
Updated
2026-09-02

Right now the only version we have seen

How to recognise it

  1. A booking you never made
  2. A bare reference number and one link, no itinerary
  3. The link is not qatarairways.com

What to do

  1. Do not follow the link; if you did book, check by typing qatarairways.com
  2. Delete it
Already called, clicked or paid? what to do in the next hour
  1. Entered a password? Change it now, and everywhere else you used the same one
  2. Entered card details? Call your bank, ask them to block the card and reissue
  3. Entered a one-time code? Sign in to the real service now and check for changes to email, phone and payment settings
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How it changed

nothing to compare yet · one wave on record
2019-04the booking-confirmation lure
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02 Sept2026
Registry

Family created

Grew out of the 2019 guide.

29 Apr2019
Specimen

Specimen №1: the booking-confirmation lure

The guide quoted the message and documented the landing page.

Channel
email

Thank you for booking with Qatar Airways. We have received your booking under reference [random number].

Yours sincerely, Qatar Airways

You can also view the details of this request by following this link: [phony hyperlink].

Specimen of the Qatar Airways fake booking confirmation, as documented in the original guide
Reproduced as documented · removed: reference number, linkimage · embed with a link to this page
Source: soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/qatar-airways-email-scam

Same trick, other brands

Indicators

  • None on record yet. Indicators change weekly; an empty list never means an email is safe.

In other streams

Registry data

Machine-readable
/scams/qatar-airways-booking.json
Timeline feed
/scams/qatar-airways-booking/feed.xml
Sources
1 · 1 change logged
Licence
CC BY 4.0 · attribution required
Created / updated
2026-09-02 / 2026-09-02