Sri Lankaโs Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) has issued an advisory alerting the public to be vigilant of fake social media advertisements offering unclaimed luggage for sale at the airport premises in Katunayake.ย
Issuing a statement on Facebook, the BIA said it has been made aware of unofficial social media pages and websites pretending to be BIA and publishing social media posts offering unclaimed luggage for sale.ย
The BIA informed that this information was entirely false and not endorsed by theย Airport & Aviation Services Sri Lanka Private Ltd.
โWe urge everyone to be vigilant in responding to such advertisements with offers on specific products claiming to be from Bandaranaike International Airport. If you see such advertisements, do report the pages as scams,โ the BIA urged.
The BIA further requested the public to rely only on official updates from its official social media channels mentioned below;
๐ ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐จ๐ค Bandaranaike International Airportย ย
๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ instagram.com/bia_srilanka
๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ twitter.com/BIA_SriLanka
๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ www.airport.lk (Newswire)