Originally Posted by
ashill
With the information requested, could one cancel the ticket, pay the $300 or whatever it is change fee, and use the residual value to buy a new ticket (and then sell it to someone else for $500 so that person gets stuck with a ticket that AA would probably cancel when the OP calls in)? That's my best guess for what a fraudster would be trying to do here.
Not likely because the reissue will be in the passenger's name or the paper voucher mailed to the passenger.
But,.more to the point, people who provide information such as this on sites such as this are likely to have provided other information over time. There are entire operations which scour social media profiles for bits of information. Doesn't take long before they've also got a full address, date of birth and at least last 4 of some CC and Social.
There may well be someone out there who really is the Nigerian Prince and wants to give you $15 Million. But, it's not likely.