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Some girl whom I met on fb started chatting & subsequently became friends, After couple of weeks She told me that she is going to revive her Jewelry Business for which she is coming to India. As such this was a sudden decision & being a friend she insisted me to arrange meeting of biggest Jewelers for which my investment of almost INR 200000/ is required. As per our recent whatsapp chat she's currently traveling to India but looking at the ticket I am not sure coz there is no PNR number or any reference number. She is travelling with British Airways from Heathrow, London to Chatrapati Shivaji Airport Mumbai. i am attaching the ticket she shared with me for clarity purpose.

Can Someone help in this regard ?

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Darren H
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Jimmy Singh Bali
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This is a scam, 1000%

  • All Boeing 747s have been retired back in 2020 from the BA Fleet

  • The times are different on the same page (see the 07:40 arrival and the 00:15 arrival)

  • The departure time from London makes no sense as BA139 leaves LHR at 9:30am, not at 17h50

  • That barcode is obviously from a parcel and not from a flight (online check ins give you a QR-like code, not a barcode)
    Paketpostzentrum roughly means parcel mail center, which is far from a flight barcode

If you have sent money, you will likely never get it back, depending on how you gave that money, contact them and file a police report

Nicolas Formichella
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I agree with @Nicolas Formichella's answer that this is a scam. Don't send any (more) money.

Some more details:

  • Paketpostzentrum is in German language, thus it cannot be relevant for a flight from the UK to India operated by British Airways. All captions should be in English.

  • The plane ticket is way too expensive for 2910.12 GBP. A ticket for a non-stop one-way flight from LHR to BOM operated by British Airways, departing tomorrow can be booked for less than 600 GBP, and a round trip for less than 1000 GBP. Other airlines sell even cheaper non-stop tickets for this route. (I've just checked on flights.google.com.)

  • Plane e-tickets usually don't have any barcode, QR-code or rectangular code, but boarding passes do. The boarding pass is usually issued up to 24 hours before the flight departure, and has a caption saying boarding pass (rather than ticket or trip summary).

  • Some boarding passes issued by some airlines do have regular barcodes. (However, a flight barcode with Paketpostzentrum next to it is a red flag. There are many other red flags as well in this case, see the answers and comments.)

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