Who buys a hotel room or a cruise with a stolen credit card?

1. The Youtube algorithm has started recommending videos of people booking cruises or buying a hotel room with a stolen credit card.

This makes zero sense to me. Why would commit a crime, and then direct the police to exactly where you are located?

Not to mention then publishing videos about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRWmOAtbSA

That happened at the hotel I work at. It's the main hotel and a cheaper motel next door. Both owned and operated by the same people and sharing staff between both.

Well, my manager was running the desk at the motel, while my other coworker was at the desk of the hotel. Someone comes in and tries checking in with my manager's driver licence and credit card. My coworker went ahead and sent them to a room then called next door and my manager's purse had been swiped when she wasn't looking. The lady got arrested, but I can't imagine how ballsy even that would be. Let so be recording yourself doing it. People are crazy.

I used to work in hotels. People would book rooms on third-party sites like Booking.com with stolen cards to test them. They would never show up and usually the credit cards declined when managers try to charge them for no-shows.

We would also get people who do a scam where they tried to trick you to put in a "manual authorization" to override a declined card. They would have an accomplice call your hotel claiming to be their bank. They also might hand you their cell phone and claim it was their bank on the phone.

ExtremeLuchador posted...

I used to work in hotels. People would book rooms on third-party sites like Booking.com with stolen cards to test them. They would never show up and usually the credit cards declined when managers try to charge them for no-shows.

We would also get people who do a scam where they tried to trick you to put in a "manual authorization" to override a declined card. They would have an accomplice call your hotel claiming to be their bank. They also might hand you their cell phone and claim it was their bank on the phone.

Wow.

Kevin McCallister