Bigrob
TUG Member
If a VC does a cancel/rebook for you, and loses the reservation, the caller should be fully aware of the risk. I would never expect Wyndham to do anything in that situation (except say 'sorry, you knew the risk').
I think I am the one who Jim is referring to that had fraud on my account. Someone called in and impersonated my father cancelling a reservation. After reviewing the tape, Wyndham reinstated my points (the least of my worries) and the resort offered a different room -- a bad situation was made as good as possible. The resort bent over backwards to make things as good as possible. But they still didn't take the room away from the person who fraudulently ended up with it.
What a nightmare mstoyanov, but I think that has to be an extremely rare situation (I sure hope so). The VC must have done something glaringly wrong. Wyndham just can't go around taking back confirmed reservations (I would have thought in any case).
Anyone who has owned at Wyndham and knows general information about you is able to fraudulently call in... I really don't think Wyndham's security on that is at all adequate. "Don't have your member number? no problem, how about your email address... and your zip code..." and you're off to the races. Tonight, for example, I had a VC who only had my name, address and phone number (and this was after I gave it to her 3 times, she kept noting it incorrectly). She then read my email address back to ME. Good thing it actually WAS me. I think Wyndham should implement a function that if a call in is made to change a reservation, you can opt to have a text sent. Anyway, this may not be as rare as we'd like to think it is.
Next thing you know, 17 different people will call in saying, "Hi, this is Ron... I'd like to cancel my 52 Mardi Gras Reservations please" at the 10 month mark.