Criminals Cash In on Couple’s Credit Card Points
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jody and her husband love to travel, and they love to save up credit card reward points to make their family vacations more affordable. When they start getting notifications that some of their points have been redeemed without their permission, they are led on a monthslong ordeal to secure their accounts from criminals who are turning those hard-earned points into cash.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scamp. |
| 0:03.0 | After the second battle theft, we changed the credit card yet again and thought it was resolved. |
| 0:11.0 | And then we are not sure how they access the account the third time but they |
| 0:17.2 | went in and at that point cleaned out the points and it was over a hundred |
| 0:21.8 | thousand points. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:25.0 | Wow, they took everything. |
| 0:27.0 | They took everything. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. For many families |
| 0:39.8 | travel is the only time they get to really spend quality time with each other. |
| 0:44.8 | Getting away to somewhere different, somewhere exotic, or just somewhere relaxing, |
| 0:50.0 | away from all the distractions of daily life, just being together. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, that family time is precious. |
| 0:57.0 | But let's face it, travel isn't cheap. |
| 1:00.0 | So many of us put a lot of energy into piling up reward points all year long with credit cards with work travel |
| 1:08.0 | So we can have that precious two-week trip. It can feel a lot like a game but points equal family time. And you |
| 1:17.7 | might be surprised to learn that for criminals points can equal money. |
| 1:23.0 | Wait until you hear what Jody and her family went through recently when criminals found |
| 1:28.0 | away to... well, let's just say to ruin the family vacation. |
| 1:34.2 | But before we get to Jody's story, |
| 1:35.8 | I just want to say, she wrote to us at our email address, |
| 1:39.0 | the Perfect Scam Podcast at AARP.org. |
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