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The cost of an uncontested application for an order to the phone provider to disconnect would be beyond trivial for a company like this, and the chance of a provider regulated under Federal legislation engaging in litigation in order to specifically allow organised criminals to commit fraud...

The process would be Qantas instructing or getting a court order to have the number closed. Yes it is of course whack a mole but they can’t just refuse to whack when the mole is disrupting their business.

I have made Qantas aware via social media and they have replied and made it clear they have no interest in shutting it down, so I would think they are at least morally liable for the ongoing losses

It won’t help here anyway. They will go to manage your booking, enter the reference and name. Then they tell the unsuspecting caller - “we just sent you a highly confidential text to ensure your security” and when you give it to them, they just enter it themselves. You can manipulate 2FA a...

How can you tell who owns the number and for how long? I agree the numbers are different but in practice not, as the extra digits are simply ignored.

Speak to the domestic provider or get a court order to shut down the phone number that is identical to the US number and being used as we speak by international organized crime for fraud and identity theft. It’s not complicated. They should have had control of this phone number from the time...

I’ve been told Qantas have been directly contacted and all they said was “we are aware of scams going around, report it to Scamwatch”

A relative of mine was in a plane that had an emergency landing in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war, stuck in a hotel room for five days while they sorted it out. Actually crept out to sightsee. Interesting trip….

You can fly from the Gulf, Turkey even Vienna to Tehran direct.

Just an FYI People are being sent texts asking them to call 1800 227 4500 due to a flight change, which is their US number, but from an Australian SIM/account you seem to connect to 1800 227 450 which is an Australian number, and routes to an Indian scam shop. They ask for your booking...

Not sure which forum this goes in sorry...looking for RTW in PE (or mostly PE) in January. not many stops. One on each continent would be fine. Trying to get to Oaxaca, Mexico in particular. I am Gold on SQ til October only, nothing else useful apart from a few Emirates points but wanting status...

I have June flights via KF which I want to change until December. I can select the new flights but can't push the button to submit the request, it's greyed out. I can't get hold of anyone at SQ..seems like they never refunded 500k points from a trip never taken in December 2020 and I keep going...

Weird they chose you - how hard were you pushing? I've definitely heard people are being quietly refunded. I'm just waiting to hear back from TI, and if they refuse I'm filing a claim in small claims in NSW immediately. Not sure why this hasn't been raised as an option here at all. The contract...

They won’t spring you out of a Dubai jail if you do CPR on an Emir who subsequently dies though. If we’re talking about Western countries I wouldn’t be worried in the slightest - there’s medical indemnity, there’s the fact that common law countries require negligence for a successful lawsuit...

But what you did was appropriate (including stepping aside). The role of a medical bystander is to provide basic life support, plus use of an AED if available. If nothing else, the ambos have the IVs, the fluid, the airway equipment and the monitors and are very adequately trained. It’s not...

Well he has been awarded a doctorate so can use that title I suppose. Pretty sure that the “doctorate” doesn’t involve an actual doctoral dissertation and is basically a courtesy title like a medical practictioner’s if not more so.

In Australia. If you are in France, for example, the legal situation is entirely different. And we are talking about international flying here so the legalities are completely unclear and untested. And that’s where there are legalities at all, what happens when you are in, over or diverted to a...

I’m not convinced there is any obligation, certainly there isn’t legally here (Dekker had a few unique features but was overturned anyway with no clear obligation found to exist). But if you are on xx_Xistan airlines flying from Burma to Bhutan no-one will be able to unpick the legal situation...

Hippocratic oath doesn’t apply, we don’t encounter it in Australia. I think it’s an oath not to perform surgery as much as anything else. There’s no legal obligation to assist a stranger in theory in Australia. There have been cases which almost challenged this. Failure to assist is however an...

The benefits are carefully calibrated so as to not breach Good Samaritan principles of help without reward. I already have a better textbook than they offer and from memory the FF points were worth $30...my specialty is critical care in remote environments and training is superfluous so at least...