Re:How scammers get away with fraud
by Theophraustous on Monday July 09, 2018 @03:56PM
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I have previously worked at Southwest Airlines HQ as a Customer Relations Supervisor, and when something as serious as booking $1000's of dollars of flights and flying or No-showing several to cover the one they were actually intent on flying the most we would do is issue a charge back and report to our internal fraud prevention dept which would simply add it as a data point to automatically cancel flights similar to this in the future.
We would have the fraudster's full name, address, phone number, email, and sometimes their social for their ticket to be valid to get past TSA. Even with all this, nothing more than canceling a Rapid Rewards account or blacklisting their email was actually ever done to the thief.
I live in a country with bad policing and these type of crimes are taken seriously. Like if you use the card for 50-100$ purchases, your next will probably jail time.
Another point: Did the card owner complain? Usually, when a complaint happen multiple parties are involved. The shipper gets a charge back on his account, so he'll actually care to pursue. MasterCard/Visa also pursue these issues as well as the banks involved in these transactions.
tl;dr: probably BS in the US. And from what I read the only countries where you can get away with are Russia, Nigeria, etc...