This is a scam, right?
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: Aeroplan, Miles and More
Posts: 42
This is a scam, right?
Found someone on CL looking to give away/sell eUpgrade credits. Only catch, he said to upgrade me he needs my booking reference number.
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
#2
Join Date: Feb 2011
Programs: AC*E
Posts: 18
Found someone on CL looking to give away/sell eUpgrade credits. Only catch, he said to upgrade me he needs my booking reference number.
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
#4
Join Date: Dec 2010
Programs: UA MP
Posts: 768
For pranksters, yes it's surprisingly easy to cancel other people's PNR. However trying to get refund on a different credit card number will probably raise a red flag.
Last edited by g46r; Feb 23, 2012 at 9:56 pm
#5
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: YQR
Posts: 2,731
Found someone on CL looking to give away/sell eUpgrade credits. Only catch, he said to upgrade me he needs my booking reference number.
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Fraud alert!
As others note, someone else can cancel your flight, which would be a rather malicious thing to do.
#6
Join Date: Jul 2008
Programs: Via Preference Privilege, AC*A, Fairmont Plat, SPG Gold
Posts: 1,334
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Happened to lucky before:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemileatatime/2011/06/01/someone-decided-to-cancel-my-tickets-remember-to-protect-your-travel-plans/
So you do have to watch out who gets ahold if your PNR, unless you call and put a password on it. I believe all credits have to be used by the name of the person on the ticket so less danger from people ripping you off.
Happened to lucky before:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemileatatime/2011/06/01/someone-decided-to-cancel-my-tickets-remember-to-protect-your-travel-plans/
So you do have to watch out who gets ahold if your PNR, unless you call and put a password on it. I believe all credits have to be used by the name of the person on the ticket so less danger from people ripping you off.
#7
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: YUL
Programs: AC Altitude -.006k
Posts: 895
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)
Happened to lucky before:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...-travel-plans/
So you do have to watch out who gets ahold if your PNR, unless you call and put a password on it. I believe all credits have to be used by the name of the person on the ticket so less danger from people ripping you off.
Happened to lucky before:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...-travel-plans/
So you do have to watch out who gets ahold if your PNR, unless you call and put a password on it. I believe all credits have to be used by the name of the person on the ticket so less danger from people ripping you off.
The T&C of eUpgrades forbid reselling. Your CL guy is offside, perhaps a tad entrepreneurial as well. From ac.com:
"eUpgrade Credits are not redeemable for cash or other consideration and may not be bartered or sold.
Air Canada will consider void any eUpgrade Credits that have been bartered or sold. Air Canada reserves the right to terminate the Top Tier privileges of members who sell or barter their eUpgrade Credits."
#8
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: YYC
Posts: 23,742
Found someone on CL looking to give away/sell eUpgrade credits. Only catch, he said to upgrade me he needs my booking reference number.
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Beware people, if you give someone your reference number, they can cancel your flight and potentially credit the refund back to a different account!
Seriously though, one would hope AC gets someone to give this guy a booking reference, and from there, catches the guy and cancels his account.
One reason we suffer ever more hoops from AC is these jerks.