javabytes

A good reminder of why not to buy vouchers from people online.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/C4/2...nclick_check=1

DavidDTW

Love the pic w the red tails!

CalVol

Of course, in 2011 we were told changes to the T &C of theses vouchers had to be made to protect us from fraudulent activity.....hmmm? Maybe they were going after the wrong targets.

N830MH

Good grief!! She's trying to stealing by the passengers' vouchers. She's trying to steal the money from Delta/Northwest. This is insane! Those passengers are complaining about a travel voucher. It's unacceptable! She could go to prison for 20 years. She lied to all agent, manager, supervisor and etc. She didn't telling the truth.

Good riddance to ex-Delta employee!!

RFDMinnesota

Actually it sounds like she admitted to her crime. Probably only a few years with good behavior, if that. Leave the prison cells for the dangerous

pointy

I was about to start a thread to share that shocking news, but I guess I'll just merge it into this one

MSPeconomist

The story seems strange. Supposedly she stole the vouchers to repay a friend to whom she onlly owed $1000, yet DL lost about $50,000 in the process, with the friend reselling the vouchers for half of their value. So she gave him vouchers for which he got $25,000 even though she only owed him $1000. That's quite a rate of interest on her loan.

tkey75

Well, you know, the economy, 9/11 and all...

eturowski

Also, she was giving him 60-100 names and numbers per night for "months" for vouchers that were worth $200-$1,000 each? The math definitely doesn't add up here.

MSPeconomist

She only did this on nights she worked. She was a part time employee and we don't know how often she worked or how much of her work was at night when it might have been easier to write down customer account details than during the days she may have worked.

If it was one night per month for three nights, lower estimate would be

3 nights X 60 names X $200 vouchers = $36,000 total value of vouchers

versus upper estimate at

3 nights X 100 names X $1000 vouchers = $300,000 total value of vouchers,

but we know that $1000 vouchers are rare and DL would be more likely to issue five $200 vouchers. Maybe a reasonable estimate could be

3 nights X 100 names X $200 vouchers = $60,000 total value of vouchers.

Some of the vouchers would have already been used by their owners and others might not be uses by the buyer, so this seems close to DL's claimed loss.

Bottom line is that it could have been much worse. A full time employee getting details on 100 accounts for every day worked would have meant

5 days per week X 13 weeks of work in three months X 100 accounts per day = 6500 accounts affected or $1,300,000 worth of vouchers assuming one $200 voucher in each account.

Spiff

3 points a week adds up. Be careful of such friends.

Dalat767

It appears that her intention was to pay her debt ($1000) and the opportunity to become part of the schemes cannot be resisted. That is my 2cents.

Justin026

Delta values the loss at $52,000 instead of $1,000 because they are including the lost opportunity to charge change fees.

itsaboutthejourney

+ 1

Starblazer

am I the only one that noticed that the delta logo was photoshopped just like the picture of the 757 on the "Idle screen" of every single delta computer?