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I hope that you’ve enjoyed the past week of travel information – here’s a recap of what you may have missed from Points With a Crew over the past week or so

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2 new status matches / challenges came out this week

First of all, you can status match to Hilton Diamond status through March 2018 (I matched from IHG Platinum, and this match was even though I was already Diamond from a previous status match.

Also several folks were targeted for an American Airlines fast track challenge to Executive Platinum


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A few months ago, i signed up for an online promotion to open up a Citigold checking account

The best part of this was the ability to fund the checking account with a credit card, though you can’t do that any more (SEE ALSO: The miles from my $39,000 purchase just posted!!)

Citi has reportedly been denying the promotional miles, but here’s how I was able to get my 50,000 miles from Citi!


walmartI’m not a big product reseller, but I do a little bit here and there.

So I was surprised when I woke up to find 5 fraudulent purchases on my Walmart.com account!

I’m still trying to decide if I should bother filling out a police report.


Other news of the week

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If you’re still up for more travel reading, here’s last week’s recap: 9 top travel stories you may have missed


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