Woman gobsmacked after credit card hacker moans about her cancelling his flight

23 May 2023 , 13:30

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He used her credit card to book a flight to visit his family (stock photo) (Image: Getty Images)

A woman has been left in disbelief after receiving a snotty email from the hacker who stole her credit card information. She explained how a "criminal" hacked into her email account to access her credit card - and proceeded to use her money to book a flight.

The crook booked his flight through a travel agency company but made the mistake of signing up to the service using her email address. Taking to Reddit, she said: "My credit card was hacked. I think the guy did it by hacking my Gmail account because he signed up to a [travel agency company], with the login with Gmail button.

"I called my bank and cancelled it. I logged into [the website] to see if I could get any information about the person who booked the flight. I saw I could cancel it for no charge so I did because it was going to be faster to get a refund from them than my bank."

He also bought 12 or so tickets to a dinosaur museum (Getty Images)

But two days later, the woman received an "entitled" email from the hacker, called Travis, who booked the flight.

It read: "Why was my flight cancelled? Could you please respond? I have a family event to attend. Thank you for your time, Travis."

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Making yet another mistake, Travis made his photo and phone number visible to her when signing off his email.

She added: "I did a little bit of investigating it looks like he has a criminal record and works in technology. So, I sort of think he knew what he was doing but I could be wrong.

"Oh and my card was used to buy like 12 tickets to a dinosaur museum, and I blocked it before they tried to order Grub Hub and some s*** from a Medieval site.

"I called the police fraud department and they told me to go to a police station.

"The police station said there are a lot of people with that name and it 'could' be a fake number - and told me to call the fraud department."

Commenting on her post, one user said: "There's zero chance of me ignoring that email. I am 100 per cent responding."

Another user joked: "Why would you do that to him? He has a family event to attend. Have you no heart?"

A third user said: "This guy is one of the stupidest criminals I've ever seen!"

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Paige Freshwater