"Security" Questions
Jun 12, 2008, 6:34 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: ATL
Programs: DL - PM (Sky Priority);HH - Gold; Marriott - Silver; National - Executive; DL Reserve AMEX
Posts: 5,232
"Security" Questions
Just had to do the "security questions" before logging in. Is that stuff REALLY necessary? Eh.
Jun 12, 2008, 6:41 am
#2
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SDF
Posts: 3,302
About as necessary as a thread on them. 
Jun 12, 2008, 7:08 am
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: ATL
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Jun 12, 2008, 7:20 am
#4
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Did you see the security question that asked who your favorite moderator is on FT? 
Jun 12, 2008, 3:37 pm
#6
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Cut Off, LA,
Programs: -- DL DM, MR Lifetime TE, HH Diamond, National Something???
Posts: 618
I got the security questions page, answered the questions, but it keeps bringing me back to the page to answer the questions again. 
Jun 12, 2008, 5:15 pm
#8
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,298
DL RPU is getting smarter...
Another layer of security to ensure that you are the person to whom the SM account was issued are the one and same person using the account to obtain award tix -- you think?
Seems there are a growing number of unscruplous individuals who think that buying, selling, bartering Skymiles, Certificates, Vouchers, Upgrades, et al, on Craigslist and eBay and or even otherwise 'trading' Skymiles, Certificates, Vouchers, UGs, et al, on FT's 'Coupon connection' is okay with Delta.
Guess again. It's NOT okay, so their RPU peanut-brains are putting in another way to nail those who are engaged in this sort of behavior.
They want YOU to use the miles for yourself or for IMMEDIATE family members for shopping online for stuff rather than trying to use them to fly anywhere, and to bid on their auctions for junk, or donate them to a bona fide charity or just let them expire.
The other airlines do much of what DL does and DL does much of what the other carriers do. The days of being independent and unique airlines is OVER.
They are cooperating with each other to put the thumb-screws to many tricks people used to pursue.
They've even adding a required overnight Saturday stay for most award tix as well as working to eliminate the "turn-arounds' the Mileage-Runners used
to be able to complete, by dramatic changes on the return-side of the craft.
In other words,-- the jig is up -- they're getting smart to the tricks and antics of the FT tricksters.
Jun 12, 2008, 5:22 pm
#9
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: A small town in North Georgia
Programs: DL Platinum Medallion, AA
Posts: 1,626
It's still asking for my email address even though I've entered it three times.
Jun 12, 2008, 6:01 pm
#10
Join Date: Feb 2008
Programs: DL 4MM; DM
Posts: 1,397
I got the security questions too. I was arranging an award ticket for a friend to fly in from Paris and meet me in SF. Since we don't have the same last name, will he have difficulty when he gets to the airport? What should I tell him he might have to deal with?
Jun 12, 2008, 6:11 pm
#11
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Auckland, NZ/New York, NY/ATL
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Yes it did this to me to, but then I figured it out. Did you click enter?
YOU CANNOT CLICK ENTER ON YOUR KEYBOARD. You must click on "GO" with your mouse, otherwise it does not work. Why? I have no idea
Jun 12, 2008, 8:14 pm
#12
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: MA
Programs: DL DM/2MM Marriott Platinum, HH Diamond,
Posts: 8,906
Frankly, as one who "manages" the SkyMiles accounts of my wife and several college aged children, I find these security questions to be a real PIA. Obviously, the security questions selected have to be answerable by the account owner, but now I have to remember such memorable things as my father in-law's middle name and my wife's favorite childhood best friend.
Jun 12, 2008, 8:30 pm
#13
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: TPA or In Flight
Programs: DL PM, 1MM
Posts: 671
I just love how banks and now airlines are asking me all these personal questions that unscrupulous employees can use to even better pretend that they are me...can you say identity theft!
I just have a phrase I use for all of those questions, regardless of the question. Here is an example, but not the one I use:
"delta, i don't answer stupid questions like this"
I use the same phrase for everything on one site. Substitute the first word for each site, so they don't have the same phrase.
-=tg=-
I just have a phrase I use for all of those questions, regardless of the question. Here is an example, but not the one I use:
"delta, i don't answer stupid questions like this"
I use the same phrase for everything on one site. Substitute the first word for each site, so they don't have the same phrase.
-=tg=-
Jun 12, 2008, 8:36 pm
#14
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: CLT
Posts: 7,249
I had a similar problem with that HH MQM bonus last month and it cost me 3000 MQM before I realized I wasn't signed up. I guess the same people made this site even though the other was hhonors.com
Jun 13, 2008, 8:27 am
#15
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