“Flighttrotters is absolutely an online fraudulent group that scams money from innocent people based on the following facts:
1 This company pretends to be an international company with three offices and three websites, i.e., flighttrotters.co.uk (UK), flighttrotters.ca (Canada), and flighttrotters.com (US). However, these three websites use a single IP address, which is 88.208.221.151. This means that their three websites are operated by a single server.
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2 They are using a fake address for three of their websites, which is a UK address “Profile West 950 Great West Road Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 9ES”. If you search for this physical address, it is an address of a totally irrelevant company. See the website of that company https://www.safetykleen.eu/uk/contact-us .
Flighttrotters hides their real address to avoid lawsuit but they are stupid enough to know it’s so easy to find out their real address. For instance, the domain name flighttrotters.ca is registered with the North American based web provider GoDaddy, where shows their address is in Ontario of Canada.
3 The way they scam their customers is that first they post very attractive flights online, such as NON-STOP, much cheaper, nice time, etc. to have people to book with them. However, as soon as you book it and pay for it, your nightmare starts. Immediately you will receive a call from this scammer telling you that there is a glitch on your booking, such as another customer booked your flight a few minutes before you so they have to change your booking. Then, with a new booking, they will increase the price more than other agencies. If you say, no, I don’t want it, please return my money. They will say, no, you cannot because your booking is Non-Refundable! AND, you will never get back your money until you start some legal action to force it back.
In my case, I accepted their “new” booking and paid the extra. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 we cancelled our cruise trip and consequently we had to cancel the flight. Then the flighttrotters refused to cancel it for us. We had to contact the airline customer service directly. The airline understood the situation and refunded our full payment back to flighttrotters. However, this scammer will never have the money back to us. They simply don’t response our emails and calls. After three weeks fighting with them, our phone number was blacklisted by them!
4 Now, we have started our legal actions to charge back our money. In addition, we also did the following:
a. Tell our story in all major company reviewing websites like this one.
b. Post this fraudulent company in Facebook, YouTube and Twitters.
c. Report their scams to their website host, for instance, GoDaddy in North America.
d. Alert the security department in all airlines about their fraudulences and put this scammer in blacklist.
e. Start a lawsuit to this company.”
“This company along with sister company Flighttrotters.ca is a scam. They lure you to book a flight with them by posting very low fares on line, once you book they call you requesting additional fees for some reason or another. If you refuse, they will not reimburse you the original amount paid. You are obliged to go through your credit card company to recover your money.”
