A former Southwest Airlines employee has been indicted for allegedly creating and then selling nearly $1.9 million worth of travel vouchers. The details of this are fascinating.
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Southwest clearly has a crappy audit system. The issuing of any documents should be in conjunction with a booking, so they obviously have no control system in place.
Then there are the customers who purchased tickets using fraudulent documents who are as guilty as they know what they were doing.
Assume any unused documents will be cancelled.
We should build a underground hi speed rail system betwixt major cities with trains leaving every hour
Usually, these things start with the employee making an innocent mistake (wrong name or ticket # or boarding ID), but not detected by a supervisor whose sole focus is turn around time and flight delays. Then the employee gets in a bind (rent, car note, helping a relative), and things get out of hand. Volume grows and the money keeps rolling in.
The detection is either another employee who calls the company Hot Line or someone complains on the phone, "I spent good money to purchase this voucher, why won't you honor it" to a phone rep. The rep calls a supervisor who calls the fraud department. A scrub is made of all the vouchers issued and the employee is confronted in an office by the fraud department. Police are called and the DA is consulted.
Either controls were in place but no one was watching; or none existed in the first place. The supervisor will be reprimanded, as well as the airport manager, and maybe a VP as well. Lots of finger pointing and lots of egg on everyone's face. Someone's career is dinged and someone else ends up with a criminal record. Not a happy place!!
United (then Continental) had a somewhat similar, but less sophisticated fraud perpetrated against it about 10-15 years ago. The agent (Victoria Scardigno) went to federal prison for a few years for orchestrating it.
I'm glad the airlines got screwed. They deserve far worse for the level service they don't provide. CEOs should be getting 20 years.
The employee thought you just needed to commit fraud on a large sum and he'd get a slap on the wrist if he got caught. He failed to understand it's not about the sum involved, it's about being a executive. Only a white collar criminal can potentially get away with defrauding millions (or hundreds of millions), and only if you aren't scamming other rich people.
I imagine if a pax committed far fewer acts of skiplagging, the software would work just perfectly.
First paragraph applies all the way up to several of the nine-figure trading scandals.
What would be fascinating to know with those is how many start the same, but by luck they do make money, and close out.
Good crime doesn't pay one of my close brother says men are stupid that's a good job know hell think bout was it worth that greed and lust with mess you up everytime
If you keep your hands clean and remember to ask yourself, what would Judge Judy do ? You would know not to engage in that fraud and your life would remain scandal and trouble free. GOOD Luck and see you sitting in court waiting for the consequencesto be handed down.
If you keep your hands clean and remember to ask yourself, what would Judge Judy do ? You would know not to engage in that fraud and your life would remain scandal and trouble free. Good Luck and see you sitting in court waiting for the consequences to be handed down. You'll win or lose by how you decide to CHOOSE. So choose to do the right thing and rest in your own bed at home in comfort. Not in a jail or prison cell after your wrongdoings.