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Jul 12, 2016 | 3:20 pm

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Behindthecurtain

Join Date: Feb 2005

Location: Moscow / Aylesbury / Leeds

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Originally Posted by Rami Tamimi

Tried to book a reward flight on BA.COM for DME-LED and got the following message:

I then tried to call BA and was told that this is due to "high fraudulent avios usage" and that from now on all S7 awards have to be issued via the call centre. There is a thread on the Russian analog of FT (forum.awd.ru),where people report simmilar experiences too.

Ridiculuos.

Not sure what is ridiculous really? There is a lot of Russian based hacking going on and the spend is on Russian centric awards.

I use DME to various Russian cities redemptions and apprieciate the extra validation I go through to spend on these routes. The availability is the same but they do a Q&A validation that you are really you to protect you and your account.

I guess you would prefer that BA did nothing and then suspended your account for potential fraud instead of validating you are you..

Oh well each to their own.

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