Travel Weekly reported that both Sabre and Travelport declined to offer any comment on the situation, while Amadeus did respond, but didn’t directly address the issue. (photo via iStock/Getty Images Plus/ipopba) Apparently, ARC hasn’t granted him authorization to release that information. Nass disclosed that the con artists have been masquerading as two of the three major GDSs, thus far although he wouldn’t say which was the second being spoofed besides Sabre. Once you are logged in, Sabre will be notified that Sabre Red Workspace has been confirmed.' The recipient was then prompted to follow a link (a common phishing tactic) where they would enter their Sabre credentials. All users are required to enter a member login information (sic).

The counterfeit communication read: 'Sabre is adding a new level 3 of security at time of signing into the reservations system. In a webinar earlier this month, ARC presented one example where the fraudsters impersonated Sabre using the subject line 'Sabre System Upgrade Notification Letter'. To obtain the victim’s GDS credentials, the crooks send phishing emails to their travel advisor targets, which claim to be official communications from one of the three major GDSs-Travelport, Amadeus and Sabre. The targeted victims have most frequently been small and midsize travel agencies, he said, as well as large ticket consolidators. He said the average value of those tickets tends to be between $800 and $1,200. Airline Ticketing Fraud Scam Resurfaces After 7 Years | TravelPulseĪRC’s manager of fraud investigations, Doug Nass told Travel Weekly that successful unauthorized ticketing attacks typically see the scammers issuing between five and ten airline tickets using an unsuspecting travel advisor’s global distribution system (GDS) credentials.

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