Friday, March 28, 2025

Friday: hotel

Last night we, although mostly Ben, was working on some hotel reservations.  The hotel declined our credit card (multiple times, even after texting/emailing to confirm it wasn't fraud).  We tried the other credit card - same thing.  Ben eventually called the first credit card company, got it all sorted out, and got them reserved.

I got a call from the second card in the morning - is this fraud?  I called them back and got to talk to a real person and the conversation went a bit like this:
A: I just got a call about fraud but I'm pretty sure it was me and not fraud
Rep: what you were trying to purchase?
A: a hotel room in location
Rep: Oh!  Wow!  It was actually true.  A few months ago we had a whole bunch of fraudulent hotel charges from [that hotel or that location (I can't remember which)].

How weird is that.

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