A flight attendant at Singapore Airlines’ low cost carrier, Scoot, has been jailed after stealing around 31K USD from the airline, across 366 flights. It’s kind of wild how this started, and the logic that was used, as reported by The Straits Times…
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Pretty fascinating that it’s up to the flight attendant to do the cash drop themselves rather than have a way to securely hand the bag over at the airport at the end of the flight. Besides the obvious security risk (as this story shows) it sounds like a significant undertaking if the Scoot office is outside the airport. How was this normally handled by airlines before nearly all of them went cashless?
...Singapore still uses caning as a severe corporal punishment for male offenders under 50, adding mandatory caning for scammers in late 2025. This feels 'scammy' to me...
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What probably got the attention of the home office was when someone noticed that they had to keep ordering hundreds of bags to replace the ones that he kept each time that normally would be reused.
If he hadn’t been greedy and just kept HALF of the money each flight (and returned the bags!), he would probably have his debts paid off!
I have investigated a lot of fraud cases in my life and more often than not you ask yourself who was more stupid.
The company which had serious defects in their control systems or the employee who thought they could get away with using those defects.
So dumb.
This is victimless, so if he just skimmed a little bit off the top at a time, he would never have gotten caught
*attacking (not ‘taking’)
**more regional (not ‘global,’ unless you’re including KLM flights from Europe to ABC, etc.)
Easier to prosecute petty crimes than to go after politicians, billionaires, and corporations….
I mean it's $80 a flight. It's not a ton of cash and no more than you'd give a waitress for dinner. They just had crap internal controls.
the wildest thing: according to the original ST article, Scoot found out because HE TOLD THEM. no one noticed otherwise!
If you give people a loophole, someone will eventually exploit it. There's no excuse for the FAs criminal conduct, but neither is there an excuse for the grossly incompetent and laughably inadequate cash-handling procedures at Scoot. This is a major embarrassment for airline management, and heads really deserve to roll. It makes me wonder what else they're not keeping a sufficiently close eye on...
And for what crimes would you be "going after" politicians, billionaires, and corporations?
Surprised they're so loose with cash management given you have to pay to charge your phone onboard.
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I found it funny. Think you big guy eyed people get your knickers in a twist too quickly.
Wow, this Sounds like the real "300" movie. Why after just 366 flights ? It would have been bigger news after 1000 flights. Making 31K USD after 366 flights is like $85 into the pocket after each flight, if you do the maths. Very little income. He should get a salary raise. Even loansharks also don't want this kinda amount.
THE GUY AT THE CONTROL SYSTEM SHOULD WATCH FOR COLLECTING MONEY FROM FA AND RECONCILE THE DAILY COLLECTIONS IT IS A
MISTAKE ON THE PART OF THE GUY WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
DAY TO DAY COLLECTIONS ALSO HOW FA WILL IRRESPONSIBLY LOSE TWO BAGS HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO WORK AS FA HE CAN DO
ONLY GROUND DUTIES HE WILL NEVER GET ANY JOB IN SIN
SIN IS SUCH A NICE PLACE AND ALSO TO GET A JOB IN SQ'S SUBSIDIARY AIRLINE HE SHOULBE VERY PROUD OF THE COMPANY AND
HIS FA JOB ENJOYING SEVERAL PLACES OF INTEREST AND GOOD FOOD
HE RUINED HIS EMPLOYMENT CARRIER
“RACIST PRICK” …. posts the foul mouthed dullard.
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Obviously, his superiors are also sleeping on the job. Airline needs to take corrective actions on accountability and procedures.
When I was a teen I purchased a 45rpm record (those round black things) at a department store, paying cash. When I got home and played it, it skipped. So I asked my dad, who had a part time job at that store as a "floor walker", if he could return it for me. He looked at the receipt the sales clerk had given me and it showed a cancelled sale. He recognized immediately there was defalcation going on. Sure enough, they checked the register tapes and found this clerk had numerous cancelled sales every day. She would ring up the purchases, cancel the sales and keep the money. Why am I telling you this? I really don't know; thought it was interesting. And I flew Scoot once MNL-SIN.
Oh what a surprised that Schlappig or whatever his name is can't even report that. Typical piss poor SimplyFlying-esque writing.
A friend of ours, got deeply in debt with these illegal moneylenders, to the point that she was forging the signatures of friends as guarantors. Of course, when the moneylenders started calling the "guarantors" , the police were called. Most of the moneylender callers were traced to have originated from foreign countries and not Singapore itself.
It won't fall under that law because the 'scammers' it's targeting are individuals being scammed by telemarketers. This is an employee committing fraud against their employer, you'd have to really be grasping at straws to charge him under that law.