On 12 Feb, 21:04, MaxB wrote:
The case reported on the BBC about false tube delay refunds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7241264.stm

says the offender had made 2000 claims. One wonders how many other
people are making a good living out of this facility.

MaxB

Well here is someone who was even more greedy only more than 7000.
Makes your chap look a bit amaturish
http://londonist.com/2007/12/this_fare_refun.php

This Fare Refund Swindle Has Ceased To Be
We're still wondering whether civil servant, Trushar Patel, is either
a clever sod, just another thieving crook, or a bit of both. Either
way he's spending the next 18 months on the tax payers board and
lodging for: conspiring to procure the execution of a valuable
security. Or, in the long-lasting Queen's English, he swindled London
Underground out of twenty two grand by getting his family to fill in
bogus fare refund forms.

Now we've never bothered filling in one of these forms, but we hear
it's a bit of a bind. So you have to give the guy some credit for the
effort involved. And it only took London Underground noticing that
there were 7,105 claims from the same address for the con to be
rumbled. We're told the claims amounted to an average of 8 per day,
which when balanced out across everyone liable to claim for a delay
who doesn't, is probably quite fair cost wise. Perhaps if he been a
touch more Robin Hood like when laundering the cash.

But what we really love about the story are the comments made by the
Prosecutor regarding the administration of the refund scheme. Not
happy to settle with the Judge's comments that the scheme showed: a
high level of incompetence, Francis Sheridan went one better,
announcing: the administration of this scheme was a complete shambles
of Monty Pythonesque proportions. Anyone wishing to imagine Bob and
Ken once upon a time skipping around the TFL offices, battering each
other with stuffed parrots screaming "Oh no, not the comfy chair"
please feel free.

Image from Nicobobinus's Flickr photostream


HTH Phil