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    Aug 20, 2014, 04:49 PM
    Basic travel allowance United Arab Emerites
    My fiance' and son traveled to Dubai as he is an Architect. He designed a mall there.

    When it came time to fly home the hotel clerk asked him if he had his BTA (Basic Travel Allowance). We had never heard of it.

    So I sent him $4,000 to carry on the plane. On the way back to the hotel he was robbed. NO one except my fiance', the hotel emplyee and I knew the money was being sent. On the way back he was robbed.


    I am not worried about the money, just want to get them back to the United States.
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    Aug 20, 2014, 05:05 PM
    There is no such thing. My sister flies from Dubai to the US and back several times a year.
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    Aug 20, 2014, 05:39 PM
    He's your fiance? Have you ever actually met him? What you've described here is a very popular scam.There is no such thing as a BTA and chances are that the only one that was robbed was you.
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    Aug 20, 2014, 05:49 PM
    Which mall did he design? My sister and her family love to go skiing in the Mall of the Emirates.
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    Aug 20, 2014, 08:00 PM
    This is a common scam,

    There is no such thing as a BTA and most certainly a hotel clerk has nothing to do with it,

    So, if he is a real boyfriend, he buys his airline ticket and comes home, no issue at all. So he can just come home, no BTA needed.

    If this was a person you have never actually meet in person. ( but you said son? ) that is more the normal scam, where they just take your money, say they were robbed and ask for more money.

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