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Re: Kentucky Hillbilly Family's $15K Carnival Cruise vacation canceled just 2 days prior, without their knowledge, after sharing booking number on Facebook

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On 01 Jun 2024, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov>
posted some news:lnsB184A9D0AE3416F089P2473@0.0.0.2: 

> https://nypost.com/2024/05/31/us-news/familys-15k-carnival-cruise-
> vacation-canceled-without-their-knowledge-after-sharing-booking-number-
> on- facebook/
> 
> A Kentucky family’s $15,000 Carnival Cruise vacation they had been 
> planning for a year was canceled just two days before the ship was set
> to sail after they accidentally shared their booking number online in
> a case of identity theft.
> 
> Tiffany Banks was devastated to learn that her trip aboard the
> Carnival Celebration ship with her husband and their four kids was
> canceled without her knowledge the day before the family was going to
> fly to Florida to leave on the boat.
> 
> Banks said in a series of TikTok videos that she had no idea their 
> vacation, for which they had already paid in full, was trashed until
> she got an email about off-ship excursion cancellations and called to 
> investigate.
> 
> https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-0
> 5- 30-at-103358-PM.jpg?resize=582,1024&quality=75&strip=all
> 
> A Carnival customer service representative told her that she had
> canceled her $12,000 reservation for the ship’s largest room — the
> Excel Presidential Suite — through the online system.
> 
> The mom and nurse practitioner said she went into “a full-blown panic”
> and she and her four kids were all in tears.
> 
> “We have nearly $15,000 tied up in for this vacation including
> excursions. The room itself was I think $12,000 or $13,000, and then
> we’ve got a few grand tied up in excursions, and actually with almost
> $2,000 for flights,” she said in a May 12 TikTok video.
> 
> Banks said she never canceled the trip and wondered if it was a system
> glitch.
> 
> Carnival said the room they had booked was now reserved by another 
> customer and offered the family two interior rooms — the cheapest on
> the ship — instead, but the mom did not feel it was an adequate
> replacement. 
> 
> Carnival also refused to offer a full refund as its cancellation
> policy states that no money will be returned within 15 days of the
> cruise date. 
> 
> The family flew to Miami and tried to board the ship anyway, hoping
> for a last-minute solution, but were unable to get on and the ship
> sailed off without them, Banks said in a teary follow-up video.
> 
> They instead stayed at an Airbnb in the Sunshine State, hoping to make
> the best of their change of plans while the mom shared frustrating
> updates on TikTok.
> 
> In one clip, she responded to “haters” who accused her of hiding
> things or not sharing the full story.
> 
> “I’m an open book. I talk too much. I give out too much information — 
> that’s just me naturally,” she said in remarks that would become an
> ironic prediction of what was to come in the saga.
> 
> A few days later, Carnival called Banks back with an explanation of
> how her long-awaited cruise trip was canned.
> 
> The cruise line told Banks that she was the “victim of a form of
> identity theft” but that there was no security breach on Carnival’s
> part, according to a recording of the call she shared on TikTok.
> 
> Banks and her husband accidentally shared their cruise booking
> reference number when posting a screenshot of an email with the
> countdown to their vacation on Facebook a few weeks out, according to
> the clip. 

O-O !

> The same day they posted the booking number on Facebook, someone
> created an online Carnival account and added the number to their
> profile. 

Lol !

> Then, 48 hours before the cruise sail date, the person canceled the 
> family’s entire cabin booking, the Carnival rep told Banks in the 
> recording.

Lol 2 !
 
> Banks said Carnival told her that it believes the IP address of the
> person who canceled was in British Columbia but it was unable to get
> an identity of the fraudster.
> 
> The company offered her future cruise credit for $10,404 contingent on
> the mom posting on social media “something to the effect of Carnival
> has now resolved the issue.”
> 
> But Banks said she wasn’t interested and questioned the ease with
> which someone was able to take over her booking with no verification
> process. 
> 
> “We’re not sailing with Carnival ever again,” she said.
> 
> The Post reached out to Carnival but did not immediately receive a 
> response.

You'd never want this "nurse practioner" involved in your care.

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Kentucky Hillbilly Family's $15K Carnival Cruise vacation canceled just 2 days prior, without their knowledge, after sharing booking number on Facebook "Leroy N. Soetoro" <democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov> - 2024-06-01 23:41 +0000
  Re: Kentucky Hillbilly Family's $15K Carnival Cruise vacation canceled just 2 days prior, without their knowledge, after sharing booking number on Facebook "P. Coonan" <nospam@ix.netcom.com> - 2024-06-02 22:18 +0000

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