American Airlines has issued a security warning against a phishing attack:

“American Airlines has warned members of its AAdvantage frequent flier program of a pfishing (sic) scheme that uses a bogus AAdvantage Web site to reap personal financial information, which can be used in identity theft and other financial fraud.”

link: Phishing warning issued

In these times of rapid regulation changes in the airline industry, the travel public may see this survey scheme as being a legitimate consumer poll. The hackers and phishers are clever. They are stellar at manipulation. They try to take advantage of current news issues and recent tragedies, natural or man made. This airline survey ploy is an attempt at identity theft. Don’t be fooled…

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster:  http://flyinghamster.com/