<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">First, the fact that the poster starting this thread is making his/her first post may not mean anything. As my first thought was that someone started a new flyertalk handle just to start this thread. As they didn't want any of their real information known.
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And last of all it would be my opinion that contacting a lawyer would just be throwing away good money after bad. The only one that's going to come out ahead is the lawyer.</font>
Yes, the poster could be covering his IP tracks. Then again, this may indeed be a bogus
scare tactic foisted by one of the airlines.
As for contacting a lawyer, you may be right. But I don't think any lawyer who posts on this board would say that -- not out of greed or trying to drum up business for the profession -- but for fear of getting sued if he gives online "legal advice" to forget about it, and then the roof falls in.
"Oh, I relied upon . . . "