Originally Posted by Starman
Several posters on this thread have discussed holding something with a false credit card. Anyone really ever try this? I presumed ual.com verifies the card number and expiration date online in realtime before confirming the reservation.
A few months ago a credit card was suspended by a trigger happy fraud alert program when I tried to charge a $19 item in Malaysia. A few days later in Taiwan I tried to book a ticket online and the credit card was rejected. ual.com gave me an error message to call UA. The error message did not say what was wrong, but the reservation was made and held. I paid with another card at the the ATO on checkin.