I keep getting confirmation of travel reservations sent to my email address for people I’ve never heard of. They seem to be real as I can go directly to the respective airline’s website, input the reservation code and person’s name and it then allows me to make changes and/or cancel the trip entirely. I don’t have a Travelocity account and they’re not hitting any of my credit cards, so I’m at a loss about what this is and how it might work. Any ideas? Some moron that inputs the wrong email reference when booking their flight? That doesn’t appear to make much sense since they won’t get booking or checkin confirmations that way. I’m at a loss if this is some sort of scam. Thanks.

Sounds like it is a scam of some sort though not directed at you; it appears to be a scam directed at Travelocity.

It's likely a scam. I recently got a payment confirmation email from Apple for a $500 drone for someone with an Oregon address if I remember correctly. I was immediately suspicious so I googled the man's name and address and this scam email immediately popped up. What is crazy is that the email actually had an Apple.com email address.

They want you to contact them where they will then try to get info out of you. It seems to be another new method. I sent that email directly to the junk file.

Yeah, I’ve gotten those Apple purchase confirmations as well, but they’re obvious. These flight confirmation emails about bookings and checkin aren’t asking me to do anything - they’re just emailed notices like you’d receive if you were actually taking a flight somewhere, just with someone else’s name on them. Very peculiar.

Maybe call and ask for their fraud dept and see what they have to say?

I would suggest going to the address header of the emails you're getting and seeing if it really is coming from travelocity or if they're just spoofing travelocity.

Looks like they’re hoping I’ll click on one of the links in the confirmation emails and let myself get sent to some complex address where who knows what’ll happen. Fat chance. It also appears that the names associated with the flights may not really exist - at least no one by those names shows up via an internet search.

They seem to be making some sort of actual reservation since the airline website shows a record of it with the same info, but that seems like a lot of trouble to go thru just to get a mark to click on an embedded link. Guess this is some new trick I haven’t seen before.