This morning BBB learned that 17 International students attending Texas A&M had all attempted to purchase airline tickets from Jasmine Travel in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the students had done a search online as airline tickets to India, and this site popped up: sulekha , which was described as Indias version of Craigslist. From there she found Jasmine Travel was offering airfare to India for $700 cheaper than anyone else. Without checking into the company, she wired $1000 to them and contacted her friends, all of whom did the exact same thing. No one stopped to wonder why or how this company could offer such low airfare. The police found that they were using an address in Forest Hills, NY that was actually a Citibank office. In Los Alamitos, CA the office was actually another travel agency called Adam Intelligent Travel. When BBB searched Jasmine Travel scam, up popped ScamAdviser which gave us information that showed the company to be in Jakarta, Indonesia, but which had 2 servers in Georgia. Attempts are being made to shut down those servers. We have large numbers of foreign students in our 18-county Ohio-Michigan service area. We want to get the alert to them. If you have contacts with these student groups, please forward this. Thanks!
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:45:48 +0000
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