Family’s holiday nixed, card was used to pay out for others’ visits

CHICAGO (CBS) – A grieving relatives booked a vacation with a intended travel agent who finished up canceling their vacation but employed their debit card to pay out for countless numbers of dollars in resort rooms for other men and women.

CBS 2’s Lauren Victory hit the road to unravel this mess.

Like Kevin Juggan’s tale, this story is a bit of a saga. Retain Kevin’s spirit and son Anthony’s feelings in brain as we believe back to July 2022.

“It was about six months right after my father experienced passed,” Anthony stated. “You know, we’re continue to reeling from the reduction, and we wanted one thing wonderful.”

The Bahamas sounded excellent, and the islands ended up contacting.

So much more than 20 Juggan household users snagged a $1,200 deal to the Bahamas, supplied by a Chicago-space business identified as M&M Occasions.

“The vacation was booked for January, which is my mother’s birthday and, you know, after you drop a person, birthdays and these days strike distinctive,” Anthony stated.

“If we do this, we can have some form of closure, but, um, it wasn’t meant to be,” explained Minerva Juggan.

It truly is pretty an understatement from the family’s matriarch.

A relative discovered their hotel confirmation range failed to exist. Then, much more crimson flags popped up.

“We have been speaking among each and every other: ‘Has anybody gotten an itinerary still?'” Anthony explained.

The family vacation never transpired. M&M Occasions blamed a bungled marketing and canceled the working day just before takeoff.

The family was robbed of peace, memories, and, apparently, substantially much more.

“When we were being at our most susceptible, 6 months immediately after my father had handed, we’ve under no circumstances been so susceptible,” he stated.

The true vacation commenced with a stack of paper containing mysterious rates from again in August and September from Expedia.com.

It included up to extra than $7,000. The Juggans to begin with assumed the transactions had been for their Bahamas vacation. M&M Gatherings failed to give a refund.

So they disputed the expenses.

“They did get treatment of it at very first,” Minerva said.

By ‘they,’ she intended Chase Lender, but Chase took its $7,200 back in March. In Could, surprising details of the denial were discovered.

The charges incorporated a $230 remain in Wisconsin and a $1,400 hotel in Cozumel, Mexico. Expedia explained to the lender the “customer used the reservation in full, even sharing who checked in.

The secret deepened.

“I looked at them. Individuals names weren’t mine!” Minerva reported. “They applied my card since I would see the amount.”

Anthony included, “You employed my mother’s debit card to guide outings for unapproved people today. This is fraud.”

So Anthony filed a report with Oak Garden police. He also went to the Brighton Park Library to meet with the proprietor of M&M Functions, Maysoon Nasir. He snapped a picture following he reported Nasir gave him only a partial refund and excuses.

“This is fraud,” Anthony stated. “And ‘No. It would’ve arrive out the identical total as your bundle, so I was just shifting this marketing to that promotion.'”

Victory:  “What we’re in this article to come across out is why you use a debit card to book travel for other individuals?”

Nasir: “Properly, we talked about it about the phone.”

Victory: “We did, but you can notify me once again in person.”

Nasir requested to meet up with CBS 2 but would only reveal the Expedia rates.

“I remaining their details on there,” Nasir instructed CBS 2 about the phone.

Through that cellphone interview, the travel agent apologized for what she explained was an automation error with her booking process.

“When I entered the card for the other particular person like the Puerto Rico vacation, or whoever it was, that was billed on his card,” Nasir claimed.

Victory: “You however stand by that your laptop made a oversight?”

Nasir: “What ever I explained in the interview, totally, 100%.”

But other M&M Situations prospects shared Expedia rates they did not approve both, and the Juggans’ lender documents discovered Nasir has a track record at a Wisconsin resort.

“This human being is a scammer who normally takes people’s income,” one particular of the files read through.

Victory: “Do you know why the Cove of Lake Geneva explained that you’re a identified scammer?”

Nasir: “No.”

Oak Garden law enforcement explained to CBS 2 they have received a number of experiences against Nasir. Chase re-opened its investigation far too, but eventually informed CBS 2 their selection is unchanged, and the family’s assert was denied.

CBS 2 filled in Governors State University’s Professor Fraud (William Kresse) on what took place and desired to know why the bank said the Juggans authorized the transactions.

“Your training course of action has to be against that individual that you willingly gave those people quantities to,” Kresse mentioned. “In a perception, you can see the banks wondering on this. Maybe you gave people numbers to the vacation agent told them, ‘Hey, guide flights for all the customers of my extended household,’ and then I will go back again and inform the bank, ‘No, I was defrauded. Give me all my revenue.'”

The Juggans swear the funny small business is just not on their end.

“My father was the truthful, kindest man there was,” Anthony reported.

And in the finish, Nasir saved a assure to spend back the relatives soon after CBS 2 bought associated.

“I am likely to fork out him back,” he stated.

He delivered hundreds of pounds in funds with a receipt.

Some household customers booked the Bahamas vacation with a credit history card and ended up refunded by their financial institutions. Professor Fraud reported the Juggans shouldn’t have used a debit card for the reason that they really don’t give customers as a lot of protections, as evidenced by Chase’s refusal to reverse its denial.

EDITOR’S Take note:  When Lauren Victory interviewed the meant vacation agent, she spelled her identify Maysun Nisar. Even so, court paperwork and social media posts recommend it is Maysoon Nasir. She did not answer to messages inquiring her about the spelling of her name.