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