A Reddit consumer claiming to be an airline worker is warning vacationers about the potential for being scammed with regards to their printed bag tags.
Posted within the “r/delta” discussion board on Reddit, the message is titled, “Toss your bag tags at dwelling.”
The Reddit consumer claimed to be a “baggage claims supervisor.” The person needed to “let everybody know to please begin discarding your bag tags at dwelling.”
“So please watch out and don’t take your tags off at the airport,” the particular person concluded.
“They’ll steal sufficient data from that to make use of your journey itinerary to receives a commission.”
Many flight passengers took to the feedback part to debate whether or not this may very well be doable — sharing their very own ideas.
“Clearly my technique of forgetting to take away the tag till it’s time for my subsequent journey is paying off,” commented one consumer.
One other agreed, saying, “I really depart my tag on my bag till my subsequent journey myself.”
“I all the time tossed them at dwelling, not as a result of I’m acutely aware [of it] however I’m kinda forgetful,” one Redditor wrote.
One other flyer stated, “Japan had secured bag tag disposal receptacles close to the secured exit of bags declare … This explains why.”
“Do one higher. SHRED your bag tags and printed boarding passes as quickly as you may after attending to your vacation spot,” one particular person wrote.
Yet one more Redditor stated, “As a result of my full identify is on it, I’ve all the time discarded them at dwelling.”
The unique poster shared the assumption that others might rip-off passengers.
“A bag tag solely consists of the identify, flight[s] and affirmation quantity outdoors of the tag itself,” the particular person wrote. “They make an e mail handle with that particular person’s identify in it, a random cellphone quantity and a random handle and submit the declare.”
Gary Leff, a Texas-based journey trade knowledgeable and creator of the weblog “View From the Wing,” advised Fox Information Digital he doesn’t see the rip-off being that prevalent.
“You need to preserve the bag tag hooked up till any baggage points are totally resolved, then discard it at dwelling,” stated Leff.
“That stated, this doesn’t strike me as plausibly a high-volume, frequent rip-off.”
Leff stated tags carry restricted data, corresponding to a final identify, flight quantity and a selected bag tag quantity.
He identified the tags don’t generally have a ticket quantity or road handle.
“Luggage are scanned. Every scan from examine‑in to baggage belt is logged. If a scammer recordsdata a lacking bag declare the place the system exhibits it was delivered, that’s going to be a flag, particularly when this occurs at scale,” stated Leff.
“The commonest factor is submitting misplaced bag claims for objects that had been really delivered, which I’ve written about a few instances,” he added.
