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[privacy] Credit Card Fraud at One-in-Five Airlines

From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:43:48 GMT

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Via The Irish Examiner (props, Pogo Was Right).

[snip]

Airline staff have stolen passengers identity and ripped-off their
credit card details up to 20% of international airlines have admitted in a
survey.

According to the Airline Fraud Survey 2006 by the Deloitte and the
International Association of Airline Internal Auditors, the annual cost of
fraud to the airline industry every year is $600 million (440m) with an
average of 446 cases per airline. Of those surveyed, 79% of carriers
admitting they had experienced fraud in the last 12 months.

[snip]

More:
http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ire
land-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=31326-qqqx=1.asp

- - ferg

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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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