My initial thought is that the "travel agent" is themselves the spammer/scammer and they're leading you on to a point where you'll agree that $10 to go ahead and accept the ticket is a great deal since the rest of it was already covered, then they'll get your account information and take you for everything.
I'd discontinue the conversation and check back with your card companies that they did not actually see an attempt to pay for this ticket go through them. With the cards reported, they shouldn't have authorized it, which would just further go to prove I was right. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Paul Slattery <[email protected]> wrote: > I received detailed booking information about airline tickets purchased > for a trip to the Netherlands at Christmas. The sender was a Dutch travel > agent. There was a second recipient with a Hotmail account and a name > similar to mine. I wrote back to inform the agent of her error and > received an immediate reply insisting that I had booked the ticket. Again, > the Hotmail account was cc'd. > > I wrote back again, pointing out the error and tried to cc the Hotmail > account. When I put that e-address into the CC address line, the address > was automatically and immediately replaced with the ticket agent's > address. I tried several times, to no avail. Oddly, I could (and did) > insert that same Hotmail address into the text of the message with it not > changing. > > Since I began this note an hour ago, I have had one more exchange with the > travel agent. She sent me a copy of the ticket. (And what a ticket! > London>Brisbane>HongKong>Dubai>Amsterdam) Booked for December, no > indication of how is it being paid for. That email was from the travel > agent, with a .nl origin. It was forwarded by the agent, writing in Dutch, > and sent from the mysterious Hotmail address. (Now looking back, I see ALL > the correspondence from the agent was from that same Hotmail address.) > > Anyone ever encounter this? Any idea what causes it? Any insight would > be helpful. I am concerned because my wallet was stolen last week. I have > reported cards and ID missing, but am concerned that cleverer minds than > mine are creating work-arounds that will come back to haunt. I have > informed to travel agent about the lost cards and ID. > > Sorry about all the tangential details. Not my intention to turn everyone > into a Miss Marple, but I am really curious about how this is being done. > > Cheers, > > Beekeeper > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
