{
  "slug": "qatar-airways-booking",
  "canonical_name": "Qatar Airways fake booking confirmation",
  "family": "account-suspension",
  "impersonates": {
    "brand": "Qatar Airways",
    "disclaimer": "Qatar Airways is not involved; criminals impersonate the brand.",
    "official_fraud_page": null
  },
  "goal": [
    "credentials",
    "personal-data",
    "malware"
  ],
  "channels": [
    "email"
  ],
  "summary": "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.",
  "status": "archived",
  "first_seen": "2019-04",
  "last_seen": "2019-04",
  "recognise": [
    "A booking you never made",
    "A bare reference number and one link, no itinerary",
    "The link is not qatarairways.com"
  ],
  "variants": [],
  "specimen": {
    "date": "2019-04",
    "channel": "email",
    "from": null,
    "reply_to": null,
    "subject": null,
    "attachment": null,
    "body_text": "Thank you for booking with Qatar Airways. We have received your booking under reference [random number].\n\nYours sincerely,\nQatar Airways\n\nYou can also view the details of this request by following this link: [phony hyperlink].",
    "redactions": [
      "reference number",
      "link"
    ],
    "image": "/wp-content/uploads/qatar-airways-email-scam.png",
    "sources": [
      "https://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/qatar-airways-email-scam"
    ]
  },
  "tells": [],
  "indicators": {
    "sender_domains": [],
    "senders": [],
    "reply_to": [],
    "phone_numbers": [],
    "urls": [],
    "wallets": [],
    "attachments": [],
    "note": "Indicators change weekly; an empty list never means an email is safe."
  },
  "what_to_do": {
    "if_received": [
      "Do not follow the link; if you did book, check by typing qatarairways.com",
      "Delete it"
    ],
    "if_called_or_paid": [
      "Entered a password? Change it now, and everywhere else you used the same one",
      "Entered card details? Call your bank, ask them to block the card and reissue",
      "Entered a one-time code? Sign in to the real service now and check for changes to email, phone and payment settings"
    ],
    "report_links": [
      {
        "label": "Report to the FTC",
        "url": "https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Action Fraud (UK)",
        "url": "https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "malware_family": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2019-04-29",
      "type": "specimen",
      "title": "Specimen №1: the booking-confirmation lure",
      "text": "The guide quoted the message and documented the landing page.",
      "added": [],
      "removed": [],
      "sources": [
        "https://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/qatar-airways-email-scam"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "type": "registry",
      "title": "Family created",
      "text": "Grew out of the 2019 guide.",
      "added": [],
      "removed": [],
      "sources": []
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "apple-itunes-receipt"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/qatar-airways-email-scam"
  ],
  "legacy_urls": [
    "/knowledgebase/qatar-airways-email-scam"
  ],
  "legacy_redirect": false,
  "created": "2026-09-02",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "text": "Record created at the registry launch."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://soft2secure.com/scams/qatar-airways-booking",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "generated": "2026-09-03"
}