jay | call from the Mounties...

My, my... that was an unexpected call. A Constable Webb from the RCMP in Nunavut just called me and asked questions about an airline reservation I'd made last month on Canadian North from Edmonton to Cambridge Bay. I had just made a reservation, but not paid for or issued the ticket... had actually mostly forgotten about it.

Apparently there was some kind of database or other software bug in the airline's web reservations system (it's a small regional carrier and a contracted-out service), and somehow my reservation was charged to the territorial government of Nunavut. Go figure... eventually their accounting people noticed the invoice, flagged it as possible credit-card fraud, and handed it to the RCMP for investigation. Hence the phone call this morning, since the reservation had all of my contact information in it. I sent them a FAX with a copy of the airline reservation printout (showing no card number was entered, here) and my NASA travel orders for July. I suppose I should be worried, but somehow find it ironically funny...