Originally published at: A woman sold fake travel packages and used the money to take a European vacation | Boing Boing
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Link on the same page as the Yahoo story. Different travel agent, same type of crime.
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I guess if you’re going to try this scam you should probably book a very long-term vacation for yourself (as in a permanent move or at least longer than applicable statutes of limitations) and make sure it’s in a country the United States doesn’t have any extradition treaties with.
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Yeah, there’s a reason why this story is fiction, as most folks are loathe to repeat the ending. They’d rather keep on running, I guess.
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Travel agents still exist? Since the whole industry was propped up by gatekeeping access to the Sabre flight reservation database, the internet basically killed it. Still some zombie remnants, apparently.
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It’s still a pretty big industry in Japan. A lot of people want to travel abroad but want support in their native language, which is something that travel agencies can provide.
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In my experience they live exclusively off arranging travel for corporate/institutional clients who don’t want their employees’ time taken up with planning their own travel and are willing to pay the premium to avoid it.
Every time I need to use the travel agent at work I wish I could do it myself, because I know better what I want and need from a travel experience (such as departure times and hotel locations) and I’m fairly certain I can even choose cheaper options I’d be happier with than the more expensive ones they choose.
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