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Simon travels Inc review: Muhammad Harris Travel Fraud 2

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Author of the review
2:27 pm EDT

Date of Incident: July 04, 2015
Business Name: Simon Travels Inc (Muhammad Harris)

Description of Incident:
My name is Priya. Sunil (from Simon Travels Inc) contacted me for booking the flights. The travel plan is for my parents who are supposed to travel from Chennai, India to Cary, NC. On April 30th 2015, sunil sent me e-tickets for British airlines with a total amount of $1760. He asked us to check the confirmed tickets on airlines website and to pay the amount. He wanted me to do a wire transfer to the following account (as the travel agency account got some problem):

Account Holder Name: Muhammad Harris
Bank name: Wells Fargo Bank
Routing number: [protected]
Account number: [protected]
Account type: MMA Checking
Address:2398 Brighton 9th Street, 7R, Brooklyn, NY, US 11235
Phone:[protected]

After checking the tickets on-line, I transferred the amount to the above account.

But On June 4th 2015 when my parents went in to board the flight, the airline personnel asked them to show the credit card that they have used to buy the tickets. When my parents told the staff that they have booked the tickets through an agent, the staff stopped them from boarding the flight saying that the agent has used a fraud credit card for tickets booking and they can't help.
In the meanwhile I tried to reach Sunil to see whether he can help us, but of no use. Initially he answered my call, but after knowing the problem he stopped answering my calls/emails. And I have booked new tickets again for my parents travel.

Till now they are not answering my calls and/or emails. They have not returned my money yet. I do have the proofs of all email conversations and money transfer. Please help!

Desired Resolution: Return my amount of $1706

Thanks-,
Priya.

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Anant11
, US
Mar 18, 2016 8:04 pm EDT

Did you guys got your money back?

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MR2000
, US
Aug 03, 2015 7:13 pm EDT

Even I had booked Qatar airways flight ticket on Jun 16 2015 through
claimed agent(Simon Masih aka Muhammad Harris) who said he is from Simon Travels New
York.We received ticket confirmation email from Qatar airways on Jun
19.And now when I enquired on Aug 3 2015 about my reservation with
Qatar airways they told me the ticket has been cancelled on Jun 24
2015 without my consent. They said it was a charge back transaction
which led them to cancel it and refunded the amount to credit card
which Simon Masih used(visa card ending in 0744).I was not informed
about this by neither Qatar airways nor Simon Masih and I was not
refunded the amount by Simon Masih.

Called him several times sent him email(simontravelsinc@outlook.com)
but he never responded back.His text me app phone number is
[protected].When I enquired with Qatar airways they told me that
Simon Masih had booked the ticket online using visa ending in 0744
which is not my credit card.

Booking details

Qatar Airways Booking reservation number: 7JSIE6
Passenger Name:Shanthala Shetty(My wife)
Travel date : Aug 20 2015 from Chicago to Bangalore.

I had transferred the amount $540 from my chase checking account
using Chase quick pay electronic transfer [protected] on Jun 19 2015
to his wells fargo account. His wells fargo account details are as
follows.

ACCOUNT TYPE: CHECKING
BANK NAME:WELLS FARGO
NAME:Simon Masih
ACCOUNT NUM: [protected]
ROUTING NUM: [protected]