Guys! I’ve recently discovered two new toll free numbers serving three major travel scammers based in india.CheapFlightsFares,Travelqube and Fairstudy all three of these scammer companies are using these two toll free numbers.Let’s destroy them for good.
844-843-9850
866-736-9601
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https://bobrtc.live/phonebook/dial/18448439850
https://bobrtc.live/phonebook/dial/18667369601
what exactly is this scam? I’m not doubting that it is but just curious. If you pay by credit card wouldn’t you be protected by them?
@FattyMatty#102973 if you voluntarily give your credit card info and authorize the charge… It is not the bank’s responsibility to clean up your mess. They protect against unauthorized charges. Days, weeks, or months after the victim discovers there is no vacation… They cannot go to the bank and beg for help. It becomes a civil or criminal case.
@myjackcity#102993 Sounds like tough work…
Hence why I give fake details, usually ends a 30minute call with them realising I’m baiting them with Fake Details…
Once I got as far as receiving the Intinery but never flight tix.
Well that’s not completely true. If a vendor doesn’t supply what you bought from them, there would be recourse from the credit card company or if they misrepresented what you were buying.
I was on the line with them for 29 minutes pretending to be a little girl (with the help of a voice changer) stealing her father’s credit card to get flights for his birthday. I managed to get one of the emails they use. They told me it was: [email protected]. The address name seems a little too vague for me to be confident that it was actually their number. Nevertheless, it’s 29 minutes not spent scamming a real person.
After calling these guys many many times I think there are only something like 4 people working there.
They don’t seem to be able to block numbers, making it much easier to call over and over.
@FattyMatty#102973 Oh? CheapFlightsFares is NOTORIOUS and they sent a shit lawyer to threaten us with laughable letters.
The Indian travel booking scam is really simple. Find a traveler who's got a complex itin and then screw it up by not booking one of the legs of a multi-city trip, or mess up a normal reservation and then lie about needing to charge you to make modifications to it. Most of the scamming takes place on the booking website but the higher dollar amount charges and fees are done on the phone.
Oh, and you're giving your credit card and personal deets to scammers---so your credit card number basically becomes public record and can get hit for mysterious charges later.
@kenzo#103234 well that doesn’t sound so good!
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there criminals, they arnt even pci compliant, they will put ur credit card number in a excel spreadsheet and share it with their friends. The mexican travel scam is worse than the indian travel scam, but the indian tech support scam is king of all scams. The mexican travel scam is pretty bad though. Apparently the government lets them steal identities and credit cards and wont shut them down so its political issue.
what I dont get is how dont they get shut down and fined by companies like visa for not being pci compliant, why does visa let them process transactions wen there not pci compliant? They should be denied the ability to process creditcards. Visa lets them process transactions, but are not pci compliant, and face no charges. Is PCI compliance and enforcement a farce?
what I dont get is how dont thei get shut down and fined by companies like visa for not being pci compliant, why does visa let them process transactions with there not pci compliant?
We do not know the entity who is actually charging the card. If we gave them a real card we could see what the charge appears under. The call center likely delivers the card info to a totally unrelated entity. It is like playing wack-a-mole and the processor likely changes frequently.
We also don't know how "legit" they are. Has anyone been on these trips? Timeshare presentations in exchange for a free trip are real. Some have shady tactics and don't meet expectations, but they do exist.
So why doesn't Visa enforce PCI compliance? Well, sometimes the bank will tag suspicious changes. Maybe some smaller banks have trouble doing this. Visa makes 2.5% regardless of whether it is fraud or not. They are not the FTC or law enforcement. The scammer might be using PCI compliant processing... it is up to the victim and the police to identify the scammer and prove that the trip did not exist at all.
The victim authorized the charge. The police might say it is a civil matter. The FBI/FTC/NSA must be aware of these scammers... We know of them. I have reported them to Congress. No one cares. I know of one class action lawsuit brought against vacation scammers. I don't know why more lawyers don't get on board with this.
https://fortune.com/2017/08/17/robocall-lawsuit-compensation-resort-marketing/
One reason might be the Equifax judgment... What a joke:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/370010/ftc-accused-of-misleading-the-public-over-125-equifax-payou?amp=1
It's a civil matter for the most part as victims willingly give over their information. Buyer beware. It's not the same as being robbed.
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Consumer protection in the US is typically the responsibility of the state Attorney General. Visit the Florida AG’s site: https://myfloridalegal.com/
Report all the Florida call centers you can find. See what happens. If the scam is international... good luck.
@myjackcity#103418 Thanks for the info!