I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 305 today the Amateur Traveler episode 305. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beaches, art museums, and pirates as we go to Tampa Bay, Florida. Welcome to the

City one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home.

Maybe not, maybe not

to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into

this week's interview I do have four news stories for you. The first two are

related. There are fishing scams going on in the internet around travel.

And if you're not sure what a fishing scam is, that email that you get that claims to be your bank but isn't,

that's just somebody looking for your password is called a

fishing scam and that's with a pH instead of an F and there's one that has fooled a few people

that's gone out recently that's claims to be from Delta Airlines recommending you change

your Sky Mile's account pan immediately and monitor your account for misuse as you

log in you're giving them your password. So always be careful when you're looking at those emails that they come from an

email that is the company they're claiming to be and that the URLs that they send you to

also are the company that they claim to be.

And then a deal that sounded too good to be true

for Southwest was too good to be true.

People who were told they would get two free tickets

merely for sharing a promotional link

on their Facebook page,

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