Originally Posted by
beachmouse
The usual workaround is to purchase through a third party online travel agency like Expedia.
You are missing the point. To the customer, there wouldn't be anything to know to work around. Delta has to have a plan in place when they think they want the credit card for fraud purposes and the customer doesn't have it. Maybe they are good enough to figure out when it really is a fraud. But I am betting their success rate is less than 100%.