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Old Apr 16, 2005 | 1:50 pm
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Originally Posted by JohnAx
That's interesting - how did you pay for the ticket? My experience has been that BKK TA's are very sensitive about getting signed charge slips. Apparently in the past there has been quite a bit of c/c fraud originating in that part of the world, and the intermediary banks wanted no part of an unsubstantiated charge.
It was paid with VISA. I held an option with AA ( so had the itinery all validated) and then emailed him the routing. He confirmed that all was ok and the price , I emailed him the credit card details and he issued the tickets. Then he charged the DHL cost to the VISA and posted them over.

I don't see that there is too much of a fraud risk ( and assumendly he doesn't ) when the credit cardholder is travelling and when then tickets are being posted to the address registered for the cardholder.

A very handy TA in BKK imo

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