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Originally Posted by passover
(Post 34777923)
A Friend of mine that is not really familiar with points is concerned because his emirates skyward is under audit and they are asking for his passport info to be sent over. A couple of years ago he transferred a million or so points to emirates from His amex account and then did not use them, so he gave the account to his son who ended up selling to a broker which caused his account to get locked. He is concerned about sending over his identification because he read online that emirates goes after people legally who sell points from their account. Is there any reassurance i can provide him that if he send over his passport to the auditing department nothing will happen and emirates only goes after people that are doing these type of selling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth not just a standard amex cardholder that decided to transfer his points had no use for them and had them sold to a broker? thank you in advance to whoever can respond much appreciated.
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Originally Posted by m0hamed
(Post 34779194)
You think you (aka 'your friend') would have learnt the first time....
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Originally Posted by modularmayhem
(Post 34779155)
Selling points to a broker is against the Skywards rules, so I would expect his account will be closed and any remaining miles balance will be forefeited.
/QUOTE] If I was asked to send my passport info to verify my account I never would have asked this question, I am just asking this question publicly in order so that I can show the person that asked me the answer I got from people that know about emirates accounts in order to make that person feel at ease to send emirates his passport info. If it was my account I wouldn't hesitate to send it over. why do you need to be condescending. just answer the question. |
Originally Posted by OskiBear
(Post 33849765)
Based on what I read here and on various blogs, I can see where we were flagged, but it seemed ridiculous. I think there were two factors that triggered this audit:
1. Points were transferred into a relatively new account from two different Amex accounts, even though they were both under the same name and we actually had to call to get one unlinked and the other linked as it appears only one account can transfer into the EK account 2. Taxes/Surcharges were paid with an Amex card of one of the two passengers, but not the one owning the account So, my spouse and I were on a single reservation, traveling together. Points from one person, credit card from the other person. However, single reservation, traveling together, same home address. Sure, if they want to trigger an audit or ask questions, verify data, etc. But for it to take 2.5 months? We felt uncomfortable with how it would turn out so we cancelled our award reservation and modified our trip to skip EK and Dubai. |
Originally Posted by passover
(Post 34777923)
A Friend of mine that is not really familiar with points is concerned because his emirates skyward is under audit and they are asking for his passport info to be sent over. A couple of years ago he transferred a million or so points to emirates from His amex account and then did not use them, so he gave the account to his son who ended up selling to a broker which caused his account to get locked. He is concerned about sending over his identification because he read online that emirates goes after people legally who sell points from their account. Is there any reassurance i can provide him that if he send over his passport to the auditing department nothing will happen and emirates only goes after people that are doing these type of selling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth not just a standard amex cardholder that decided to transfer his points had no use for them and had them sold to a broker? thank you in advance to whoever can respond much appreciated.
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Mine and my SO's accounts were blocked for months by Skywards team.
The initial reason was SO transferring MRs to his newly created account and trying to book JFK-ATH in my name. His account got immediately blocked and then I proceeded to transfer MRs to my account and booking the said flight. It was last minute, took it the next day but then a couple of weeks later I noticed my account was blocked too. This might have been caused by my last name not matching on Amex & Skywards (name change) Anyway, we reached to data integrity, sent all the documents and explanations, had to follow up a number of times, call in Emirates support and 4 months later my SO's account got reinstated with all MRs. Mine was still locked. Data integrity team stopped responding. After a couple of months of trying to contact them, I wrote another strongly worded e-mail with an intent of reaching out to DoT should my account issue is not going to be resolved. This time it seems like it went to the correct person who reviewed the documents and unblocked the account. |
I’m blacklisted from Emirates for absolutely no reason as a result of this audit nonsense.
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Originally Posted by EYrevanchist
(Post 35818293)
I’m blacklisted from Emirates for absolutely no reason as a result of this audit nonsense.
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So what's the best preventative (if any) method if you want to plan/book award travel with transferrable currencies (Chase UR, Citi TY, etc.)?
Open a Skywards account 2 years in advance, wait 6 months, transfer a few points, wait another 6 months, transfer the rest and then book? Seems like if you do this 1 year out you'll be screwed and by the time they unlock your account, you won't be able to get award tickets unless you want to travel a year after they finally get things approved? |
Originally Posted by NYC1
(Post 35818835)
Any more facts that you wish to share? What happened, what did you try to do to fix it and what do you mean by "blacklisted" in your case (they won't sell you tickets/let you fly with them at all? Something else?)?
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