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user-inactivated  ·  1636 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Because of your social network, we would like to formally extend a Business Class upgrade"

    Is it even possible, as Ng thinks, that the airline sent her the email and then later claimed it was a forgery? What would they gain from this?

This is the impression I got reading the article. You'd have to be a bit wild to try and board business class with only a fake letter to back you up. I feel that somebody screwed up at the airline. Maybe somebody deleted it on their end to avoid losing their job because they upgraded someone without doing research?

The security team would have to go through a lot of email accounts and even find potentially deleted messages. And who knows if this influencer has the tech skills to extract embedded data from email messages.