Originally Posted by thegeneral
To me, moral of the story is stay away from quasi-third world countries. I'll still to travelling in the west.
So with your reasoning, no one should have purchased the tickets to Bucharest that were recently on offer from NW.
As was pointed out, this happens in the West too.
I think a better moral of the story is to be vigilant when you travel and not accept offers of free anything from anyone.