4 things that will change your thinking about your boarding pass

Written By إسماعيل قاسمي on 2016/08/07

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Arabiaweather.com- Ismail Ghasmi- Many of us are excited to get on the plane, but as soon as the flight ends, we throw away our boarding passes, as if they were just a piece of paper.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Someone will tamper with your personal details</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The boarding pass consists of specific information which is the name of the passenger, the date of travel, the seat number and the flight number.. Now imagine if someone wants to manipulate you, he can easily provide all your personal information to the flight management and thus change the date of travel, cancel the flight or change your seat. <a href="http://ag.arabiaweather.com/content/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%A... would you be shocked</a> ?</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Decode the bar code (barcode)</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Curious <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">what this barcode holds? The task is not difficult, as there are websites on the Internet that enable decoding all the data stored in barcodes, which usually contain: date of birth, billing address information, frequent flyer number, arrival and departure destination, class of travel, etc.. after extracting what The above mentioned barcode, anyone can withdraw the information and have it used against you.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Reset the frequent flyer number pin code</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is the special number provided by an airline to users registered in the frequent flyer program to collect points that can be redeemed at a later time for travel or to earn rewards. or broadening bass.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>All that information may be taken from social media sites as well</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Before you take a picture of your boarding pass and post it on social media, remember that you are putting yourself at risk, as some people may tamper with your personal details.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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