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British Airways Black Friday Shortlinks.su Scam Giveaway

The British Airways Black Friday giveaway below, which claims the carrier is giving away golden tickets, is a scam. The British Airways scam giveaway contains a link that goes to a phishing website called shortlinks.su. The website uses the ".su" top-level domain, which was designated for the Soviet Union (USSR).

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The British Airways Black Friday

Greetings,

This is British Airways Black Friday giveaway - hurry up, the opportunity is almost over! Answer this short quiz, find the golden ticket and win up to 2 round-trip tickets to Europe.

223 gifts left.

Question 1 of 4: Do you know British Airways?

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shortlinks.su

The shortlinks.su website will attempt to trick visitors into completing surveys that steals personal information and may go to other phishing websites thats steals financial information. Therefore, if you were tricked into disclosing your financial information by the British Airways scam, please contact your bank for help.

What are .su Websites

.su is an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was designated for the Soviet Union (USSR) on 19 September 1990. Even though the Soviet Union itself was dissolved a mere 15 months later, the . su top-level domain remains in use today with over 100,000 .su domains

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