Mr.
Schiff: Picture this. You want
to fly. You call an airline. You're
offered a great deal. But the e-ticket
is fake. FBI Special Agent Tom Woodby
in Houston says he and another Agent
interviewed unsuspecting travelers
about ordering phony tickets…
Mr. Woodby: "In interviews
with these people, the same two people
were coming up with regards with who
they bought these through. They didn't
buy them through the airlines, these
were like friend of a friend of a
friend's deal."
Mr. Schiff:
Woodby says these two fraudsters sold
more than $665,000 worth of e-tickets...
Mr. Woodby: "The transaction,
the fake electronics tickets that
were issued prior to when we stopped,
I think we identified in excess of
1,000."
Mr. Schiff:
Woodby says it was a man and woman
working this fraud and the woman actually
worked in the victim airline's reservation
center in Houston...
Mr. Woodby: "She would actually
plug somebody's name into the computer.
Redo some of the code that the airlines
would use and she would print out
a confirmation number, destination
airport to and from."
Mr. Schiff: The
two subjects were convicted and sentenced
on wire fraud charges. I'm Neal Schiff
of the Bureau and that's the FBI's
Closed Case of the Week."
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