Author Topic: Membership Rewards Fraud Dept (Read 4250 times)

aryeh1 · « **on:** May 17, 2012, 04:07:03 PM »

I made a transfer yesterday to ba. When i called Amex today I was routed to Membership rewards fraud debt. but they're not sure why.

Did anyone ever get this after transferring points to airline?

JEWDA · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2012, 04:20:44 PM »

Quote from: aryeh1 on May 17, 2012, 04:07:03 PM

I made a transfer yesterday to ba. When i called Amex today I was routed to Membership rewards fraud debt. but they're not sure why.

Did anyone ever get this after transferring points to airline?

Why did you call amex?

aryeh1 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2012, 04:24:49 PM »

Quote from: JEWDA on May 17, 2012, 04:20:44 PM

Why did you call amex?

I cancelled the card but had left over points that wasnt consolidated

Side incomer · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2012, 08:35:46 PM »

Wow!
Hope they didn't open such a department.

txtmax4 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2012, 02:06:09 AM »

Lurkage.

3ZeroT · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2012, 06:34:54 AM »

Same thing happened to me when I called into a customer service, but in my case I had simply redeemed alot of points (for gift cards) in the last couple months. It seems they just wanted to verify 'that was me' and then all was fine.

PlatinumGuy · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2012, 10:14:13 AM »

Quote from: 3ZeroT on May 18, 2012, 06:34:54 AM

Same thing happened to me when I called into a customer service, but in my case I had simply redeemed alot of points (for gift cards) in the last couple months. It seems they just wanted to verify 'that was me' and then all was fine.

Ouch.

Side incomer · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2012, 10:15:50 AM »

Quote from: 3ZeroT on May 18, 2012, 06:34:54 AM

but in my case I had simply redeemed alot of points (for gift cards) in the last couple months.

DDF member redeeming for gift cards?

PlatinumGuy · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2012, 10:17:31 AM »

@SI was discussed here once a method where it was worth it (targeted I believe)

Side incomer · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2012, 10:24:00 AM »

Quote from: PlatinumGuy on May 18, 2012, 10:17:31 AM

@SI was discussed here once a method where it was worth it (targeted I believe)

Oh you're right.
You probably mean this:
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/19033

PlatinumGuy · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2012, 10:27:41 AM »

Quote from: Side incomer on May 18, 2012, 10:24:00 AM

Oh you're right.

Surprise!

Quote from: Side incomer on May 18, 2012, 10:24:00 AM

You probably mean this:
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/19033

Nope, I seem to recall someone on DDF got a good redemption on amex GC's.

meshugener · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2012, 04:49:08 PM »

Quote from: aryeh1 on May 17, 2012, 04:07:03 PM

I made a transfer yesterday to ba. When i called Amex today I was routed to Membership rewards fraud debt. but they're not sure why.

Did anyone ever get this after transferring points to airline?

+1
Whats the end of your story?

txtmax4 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2012, 05:12:50 PM »

Transferred points this past Thursday night to BA and got a call with a message on Fri.
Called them and they just wanted to verify that it was legit.
They mentioned that my login might be blocked due to fraud alert but the she checked and said I was good to go.

Same happened to a friend of mine a few weeks ago, his transfer was into Delta instead of BA.

meshugener · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2012, 05:16:14 PM »

Quote from: txtmax4 on December 09, 2012, 05:12:50 PM

Transferred points this past Thursday night to BA and got a call with a message on Fri.
Called them and they just wanted to verify that it was legit.
They mentioned that my login might be blocked due to fraud alert but the she checked and said I was good to go.

Same happened to a friend of mine a few weeks ago, his transfer was into Delta instead of BA.

Thanks. The fraud dep is closed today, so we'll see tomorrow.

txtmax4 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2012, 06:35:37 PM »

hear that guys? If you want to commit some fraud Sunday is the day to do It, they won't catch you as they're all out ice fishin'

Moishebatchy · « **Reply #15 on:** December 09, 2012, 06:39:43 PM »

When I sold my mother-in-law's Amex points, she got a call from the fraud people that transfers were made to seven (!) different BA accounts in one shot. I told her to tell them all was well, and that was the end of that.

Side incomer · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2012, 06:52:57 PM »

My mother just a got a call last Thursday regarding her Amex points. She said all was hers, and everything was fine.

Was wondering what will happen in anyone says it's fraud on a disposable FF account that the passenger has flown already, wouldn't that be nice to get a new portion of MR?

Moishebatchy · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2012, 07:00:09 PM »

Quote from: Side incomer on December 09, 2012, 06:52:57 PM

My mother just a got a call last Thursday regarding her Amex points. She said all was hers, and everything was fine.

Was wondering what will happen in anyone says it's fraud on a disposable FF account that the passenger has flown already, wouldn't that be nice to get a new portion of MR?

First of all, the call usually comes within hours of the transfer - generally not enough time for the pax to fly.

Second of all, who wants to deal with the headache of them freezing the MR account until "the source of the security breach is found"? Not to mention if they report to BA that the Avios account has supposedly stolen points in it, and BA starts digging into the IP address and stuff...

Not worth it IMHO.

meshugener · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2012, 08:31:25 PM »

Quote from: Moishebatchy on December 09, 2012, 07:00:09 PM

First of all, the call usually comes within hours of the transfer

-1

Quote from: Moishebatchy on December 09, 2012, 07:00:09 PM

Not worth it IMHO.

+1

Moishebatchy · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2012, 05:37:33 AM »

Quote from: meshugener on December 09, 2012, 08:31:25 PM

-1

YMMV, I guess. By me, whenever I got called, it was within 24 hours.