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Old Jan 5, 2020, 6:18 pm
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Originally Posted by arshi007
Actually there's more to the story than that. The credit cards also use this data to mark your travel so that if you credit card is suddenly being used 1000 miles from your home, they don't automatically fraud alert coz the itinerary data allows them to feed into their fraud alert system. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just saying there's "convenience for users" and then "benefits to credit card companies". It's all interlinked.
IME this would be a good idea but never happens. I've had cards declined because I was somewhere that I was obviously going to (because that card was used to buy a ticket for me to that place). All I can say is, "If nly..."
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