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Tricksters target travel agents

05 Sep 2016 - by Debbie Badham
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A dramatic surge in travel fraud has seen agents becoming victims of a sinister pattern of fraudulent activity known as cyber fraud.
Travel fraud alone has increased by 425% over the past year, according to a recent study conducted by the City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, and is representative of what is happening in the South African market too, says national director: Forensic Services of Mazars, Christo Snyman. 
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