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Old May 5, 2014, 3:57 pm
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imapilotaz
 
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Originally Posted by sahiljain22
I meant everyone who he PMed and who booked tickets for him had their accounts flagged. It was the same flight, different passenger names.

Again no one really knew what was going on until accounts got flagged and those affected figured out that they booked tickets for the same FT member. It was within hours of each other.
You know, if I was going to do something like that (and I never would), I would google their phone number, address and name... and see what's up. If they are legit, it takes 5 minutes of time. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy to determine it was a scam.
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