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The Refund That Never Existed

A support chatbot invents a policy — and the company is held to it

Technique first revealed 16 Nov 2018

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A reasonable question

A customer whose grandmother just died visits the airline site and asks the chatbot whether they can get a bereavement discount, and how it works.

💬Customer messageprompt
Hi — my grandmother just passed away and I need to fly home for the funeral this week. Do you offer bereavement fares, and can I get the discount applied as a refund after I book?

AI RiskAtlas is an educational model of how GenAI & agentic systems work and fail. Architectures and payloads are illustrative and simplified for learning — not operational guidance. Real-world cases are summarised from public reporting.

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