Month: September 2025

  • On risk: A real world example

    On risk: A real world example

    It’s somewhat rare that the dominant topic for a week is the same between /r/churning and private MS groups. That occurred (kind of) last week, when tons of people started getting hit by 4506-C requests from Citi, largely combined with a lock on all cards on the account until it was cleared. It was quickly…

  • What if you were to get caught up in a jam?

    What if you were to get caught up in a jam?

    Regardless of how much you may be a millennial who “eats lots of avocado toast”, “is killing Applebees” and “hates talking on the phone”, talking to banks, airlines, and sketchy fintechs comes with the territory in this hobby.  Here are some things that may come up: In the case of airlines and hotels, they’re actually…

  • Risking it for the biscuit

    Risking it for the biscuit

    Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Bengaluru-based rapper Hanumankind. His big break was the music video for his song Big Dawgs (and I would choose it as my MLB walkout song), which was shot in a maut kā kuām̥, the show still held at fairs across India that those of us in the…