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Voucher emailed in error.

  • 19-01-2025 12:16pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭


    I bought an airline voucher for my nephew's 21st and he asked me to email it to him. I sent it to the wrong email address. My own fault. Any advice on what I can do?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭Allinall


    contact Aer Lingus and cancel it.

    They should be able to issue a replacement.

    Do it quickly before someone uses it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    I've never used these, so i don't know how the mechanism works. Maybe the unintentional recipient won't do anything, in which case if you resend the voucher to the intended recipient with a warning to use it immediately before it gets compromised.

    Failing that..

    I'd get on to the issuer in the first instance and ask can it be reissued.

    Then I'd immediately contact the person to whom you'd accidentally sent it and ask them to delete it.

    Hope you get it sorted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    If its Aer Lingus, you can change the PIN for the voucher online.

    https://vouchers.aerlingus.com/evoucher/manage?execution=e2s1



  • Administrators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,150 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    Was it a valid email address?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    It appears to be a valid address. It didn't bounce back anyway. I did email the person and asked him to delete it. The person has the same name as my nephew (it's a common enough one) but it's the difference of a dot between the first name and surname. My nephew promised he would attempt to use the voucher last night. I bought it to help pay for a family member's stag so he had a flight number etc. He has not answered me yet to say if it worked.

    Young lads. eh?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,876 ✭✭✭blackbox


    If it's a Gmail address, the dots are ignored.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Gary_dunne


    Young lads. eh?

    Didn't you email it to the wrong person? I wouldn't be throwing any shade his way.

    Hopefully the account you emailed isn't fully active and your nephew gets to use the voucher.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,139 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    You would hope most people would think it was a phising email and detele it, that's it it ever made the inbox.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Based on an earlier post by Kathleen, it sounds like it may have actually made it to the intended recipient in the first place. I remember discovering that the 'dots' were only there to make it easier for humans to remember an email address, but that in fact gmail ignores them. So kathleens.nephew@gmail.com is the same as kathleensnephew@gmail.com

    …as long as its .gmail.com. No idea if that applies to non-gmail addresses.

    Come on Kathleen, put us out of our misery 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Well the great news is that my nephew got to use the voucher. He didn't try till today but managed anyway.

    Thank you all so much for the kind replies. Interesting that dots don't matter in a Gmail account. I didn't know that.

    It wasn't with aer lingus it was with flightgift.com. I have always used them so just went with that.

    I will be careful next time.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Great news, Kathleen.



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