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<blockquote data-quote="bamban" data-source="post: 2839349" data-attributes="member: 17722"><p>The scammers are getting pretty sophisticated.</p><p></p><p>I made the reservations for our upcoming travel through AA. They have no direct flight where we're going, so they book us on their sister airline. However, they can't assign the seats. I was told to call the other airline and reserve them.</p><p></p><p>So, after 4 days I remember to make the seat reservations, off to the other airline's website I went. Clicked on it, it popped up with the site map, including customer service. Clicked that, toll free number came on. So far so good. Reserved the seats. There are fees these days for seats closer to the front, gave them my CC. I received confirmation, complete with the airline logo, flight info, and seat assignments. All is still well..</p><p></p><p>The following day, I opened the airline website to confirm that indeed our seats are reserved. Sure enough, they were. BUT, it says no fee for us, even seating in their elite section because of my lifetime Gold status with AA.</p><p></p><p>Then, anger sat in, I am beginning to think I got scammed. So, I called the airline directly and asked why I got charged for the seats when I called. The person asked for the tool free number I called, gave it to her. I was politely told that is not their number.</p><p></p><p>Hurriedly, I dialed the same number...... ring, ring, ring...</p><p></p><p>They are slick.</p><p></p><p>The bad thing on my part, my CU flagged the number initially and asked whether I will authorize the charge. Of course, dummy me, I replied with a big YES.</p><p></p><p>You authorize the charge, you play hell reversing it from a non existing company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bamban, post: 2839349, member: 17722"] The scammers are getting pretty sophisticated. I made the reservations for our upcoming travel through AA. They have no direct flight where we're going, so they book us on their sister airline. However, they can't assign the seats. I was told to call the other airline and reserve them. So, after 4 days I remember to make the seat reservations, off to the other airline's website I went. Clicked on it, it popped up with the site map, including customer service. Clicked that, toll free number came on. So far so good. Reserved the seats. There are fees these days for seats closer to the front, gave them my CC. I received confirmation, complete with the airline logo, flight info, and seat assignments. All is still well.. The following day, I opened the airline website to confirm that indeed our seats are reserved. Sure enough, they were. BUT, it says no fee for us, even seating in their elite section because of my lifetime Gold status with AA. Then, anger sat in, I am beginning to think I got scammed. So, I called the airline directly and asked why I got charged for the seats when I called. The person asked for the tool free number I called, gave it to her. I was politely told that is not their number. Hurriedly, I dialed the same number...... ring, ring, ring... They are slick. The bad thing on my part, my CU flagged the number initially and asked whether I will authorize the charge. Of course, dummy me, I replied with a big YES. You authorize the charge, you play hell reversing it from a non existing company. [/QUOTE]
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