"John Rowland" wrote in
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"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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With a validator equipped station Travelcard holders
who are "in zone" don't have to swipe their Oyster
card but if you are out of zone you do for the purposes of calculation
of auto ticket extensions.

I see no way that LU can prevent fraud. You can travel anywhere you
like on the system with a one-zone travelcard, and then when you get to
your destination, if the gates are active, you swipe and have your
extension deducted... if the gates are inactive, you just walk out and
you have no way of getting caught. If any RCI stops you en route out of
your travelcard zone, you just say you are going to swipe for the
extension at your journey's end.


It will be interesting to see what happens: given the capacity of the
system to remember journeys made it would be reasonable to assume some kind
of ability to query this database and identify potentially fraudulent
travel patterns such as this.

Now where is my copy of the Data Protection Act?

David