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Southwest Airlines Employee Accused Of Selling Nearly $1.9 Million In Fake Travel Vouchers
Southwest Airlines Employee Accused Of Selling Nearly $1.9 Million In Fake Travel Vouchers-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:48

Southwest Airlines aircrafts are seen at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on December 22, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Since a customer service agent for allegedly decided to up the ante and is now charged with fraudulently creating and selling worth over $1.87 million, according to .

The soon-to-be-former employee was working for at when he allegedly devised a scheme to use fake customer names to fraudulently generate without the airline’s knowledge or approval.

USA Today reports that the 36-year-old would then sell the fake “Southwest Luv Vouchers” below market value – because it’s all profit, anyway – to a 46-year-old Chicago resident, among a number of others. According to , most of the were worth between $200 and $500. Southwest Luv Vouchers are usually given out by the airline to compensate customers for bad experiences.

The customer service agent now reportedly faces 12 counts of . Each count of wire fraud is apparently punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison. So, if my math is correct, that’s up to 240 years behind bars, though his sentence is likely to be far less than that. Arraignment is expected laterin federal count in Chicago.

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