"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:45:52 on
Tue, 26 May 2009, DevilsPGD remarked:

Even if this were true (and I have my doubts) all it means is a slight
shift in the liability towards the airline. But as they cancelled the
ticket as soon as they learnt it was a fraudulent transaction, what's
the problem?

Better yet, don't cancel anything, just arrest whoever shows up to use
the tickets.

That's presumably the reasoning behind the recent "Watchdog" story about
Easyjet cancelling tickets where they [mistakenly] claim a fraudulent card
has been used, and failing to inform the customer until they turn up at
the airport.

The funny thing is, none of these reports involve the person being
arrested - merely told they've been bumped off the flight, that they can't
get a refund, and if they are lucky there might be a seat at the vastly
increased price "on the day".

What I can't work out is why these cases have got as far as Watchdog,
because it seems like an open and shut case against the airline.

The holy grail of credit card fraud is being able to know exactly where
the fraudster will be at a specific point in time.

You'd have thought so - but what kind of dumb crook actually turns up
(rather than trying to get a refund remotely, and obviously laundering it
in some way so it isn't simply put back into the original card account)?
--
Roland Perry

In cases such as this what seems to happen is that someone offers cheap
tickets (as we all know, even easyJet tickets get expensive at times). The
passenger pays the intermediary and the intermediary pays the airline using
the fraudulent card.