Thursday, March 08, 2007

Beat The Travel Scam Trap!

Spring Break is almost here, and summer is just around the corner. The upcoming sunny weather and warm temperatures mean vacation time for many people.

Travel deals are popping up in advertisements all over television, newspapers and the Internet ... but is a great deal ever too good to be true? Millions of people have been caught in the net of a travel scam, and they don't realize it until it's too late.

Tonya Fitzpatrick from Bronze World Travel will be in our studio today talking about the most common types of travel fraud, and what steps you should take to protect yourself against falling into their traps. This story and more coming up today, on News4 at 4 p.m.

Posted at 7:38 AM by Laurie Bernstein, News4 Production Assistant