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Old Mar 3rd 2019, 10:41 am
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Question Sheffield have my passport yet someone booked a ticket and i'm getting an email

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i'm a lurker and i just made this account to ask a question
so i applied for spouse visa, some time ago also long story but anyways, they have my passport and last email we got is "not straightforward" was like a week ago and now i'm getting a creepy email telling me i have a flight ticket from Manchester to Doha to Kuwait (which is my country, Kuwait) and i didn't book anything, nor i even can, i don't have my passport

i'm super creeped out by the email. what is going on???? are they maybe sending my documents and passport back? and if so, i didn't get an approval nor a refusal yet...only not straightforward and we're waiting...do they sometimes send back the papers before the "decision made" email?

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Old Mar 3rd 2019, 11:07 am
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Default Re: Sheffield have my passport yet someone booked a ticket and i'm getting an em

Originally Posted by Jujuwah
Hello
i'm a lurker and i just made this account to ask a question
so i applied for spouse visa, some time ago also long story but anyways, they have my passport and last email we got is "not straightforward" was like a week ago and now i'm getting a creepy email telling me i have a flight ticket from Manchester to Doha to Kuwait (which is my country, Kuwait) and i didn't book anything, nor i even can, i don't have my passport

i'm super creeped out by the email. what is going on???? are they maybe sending my documents and passport back? and if so, i didn't get an approval nor a refusal yet...only not straightforward and we're waiting...do they sometimes send back the papers before the "decision made" email?

thank you in advance
You do not need a passport to book a flight ticket.

It actually sounds like someone has used your credit card to book a ticket. Personally I would be speaking to your credit card company, asap and reporting it is a probably fraudulent transaction.
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What domain (the bit after the "@") did the email come from? And was the first part (the bit before the "@") a person's name or some sort of company, title, or department e.g. "visa processing", "ticketing", or "panam-airline"? ..... Please don't post the entire email address as it will be harvested by spammers.

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What domain (the bit after the "@") did the email come from? And was the first part (the bit before the "@") a person's name or some sort of company, title, or department e.g. "visa processing", "ticketing", or "panam-airline"? ..... Please don't post the entire email address as it will be harvested by spammers.

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Microsoft Outlook Calendar <[email protected]>
Sat 3/2/2019 5:10 PM

marked and checked by Hotmail Outlook itself, i even went to Outlook calendar and saw that there is actually a reminder there for this...???
i'm soooooo confused
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Qatar Airways (then the flight number)

Confirmation code: (a code)
6 hours, 49 minutes

then times under

Departs: Manchester (MAN) at 2:10 PM on Sunday, March 3

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Arrives: Doha (DOH) at 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 3

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That's nothing to do with your visa app though, as said above, sounds like you've been the victim of fraud. Hope you can sort it.
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I agree with Pollyana and Christmasoompa that it sounds like a fraud/ ID theft issue. That you have a calendar entry makes me think that there is probably another email, perhaps in a junk/spam folder, that created the calendar entry. In any case, I would take it up with your credit card issuer/bank as an urgent priority.
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Old Mar 3rd 2019, 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
I agree with Pollyana and Christmasoompa that it sounds like a fraud/ ID theft issue. That you have a calendar entry makes me think that there is probably another email, perhaps in a junk/spam folder, that created the calendar entry. In any case, I would take it up with your credit card issuer/bank as an urgent priority.
And as the flight appears to be today I would contact your credit card company with some urgency. If you have online access to your credit cards, check the transactions NOW and if you find a dodgy one get that card cancelled before they use it again.
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