Who watches the watchdogs?

[Decker]

Article here

Naive Virgin employee who didn't realise that their activities would easily be detected. [ii]

Tut tut (if the allegations are true).

[Scrooge]

The sister will take the fall, along with the employee of course.

[Darren Wheeler]

Will all be dropped. After all, Virgin don't have First Class as she cannot have taken them [:w] [:D]

Mmmh, did she get the FF miles when she was working on Rough Guide series for Five.[:?]

[Nottingham Nick]

Interesting that it was Virgin contacted the police. Wonder how it all came to light? [:w]

Nick

Does make me laugh that people think they can get away with it! [:o)]

[Darren Wheeler]

They must have some kind of internal audit/reporting tool to show who allocated how many, to whom and when. Someone got greedy and got caught, allegedly.

quote:Originally posted by Darren Wheeler
They must have some kind of internal audit/reporting tool to show who allocated how many, to whom and when. Someone got greedy and got caught, allegedly.



Indeed. It is almost certain they would have profit protection routines in place that would identify usually patterns of transactions. A customer burning a million miles would have likely shown up on an exception report. The employees activities would have been audit trailed in the database.

[buns]

If you ask me it was the ability to redeem rewards to so many places must have raised some suspicion[}:)]

We all know how difficult it can be at times

buns

If we assume she really took 10 UC reward flights then she must have had 1,000,000 miles added to her account. That's just stupid. Did she really think it would go undetected!?! If she'd stuck to just a couple she might have gotten away with it.

[RichardMannion]

Time does catch up with people, there are measures in place to identify unusual activity like this, or when an unusuall large number of miles are added as 'compensation'.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/ ... 496441.ece
Given her income stated, I can't see her having racked up the 1m miles on her AmEx either.

Why couldn't it have been Nicky Campbell?

[Darren Wheeler]

Can't have been that bad as the lovely Julia is back next weekend on Countryfile. [:X]

[Decker]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/ap ... a-bradbury

When has she been on The Gadget Show? I think the reporter meant Rough Guides.

[Bazz]

A very uninformative piece [n] So did the person who worked for VAA credit miles to Bradbury's account, miles which Bradbury was not entitled to but miles that Bradbury then chose to use or not?

If Bradbury did use theses miles to take up to ten free flights she must have known she had more miles than she was supposed to have, no one is that naive - or are they?

WTF

[Decker]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 101513.ece

[Nottingham Nick]

Thanks for the Times link, Decker. [y]

A MUCH more informative piece of reporting - especially with so many lines to read between. [}:)][;)][:w]

Nick

[Bazz]

The BEEB is making a laughing stock of itself by allowing her to remain on Watchdog - the credibility of the program is at stake here. If the BEEB wants to keep her on the payroll she should be moved to a program that does not deal with consumer affairs.

[Neil]

quote:Originally posted by Bazz
The BEEB is making a laughing stock of itself by allowing her to remain on Watchdog - the credibility of the program is at stake here. If the BEEB wants to keep her on the payroll she should be moved to a program that does not deal with consumer affairs.


I can't agree with that, why should she lose her job, which I personally think she is very good at, when she has, in the eyes of the law done nothing wrong? The police have said she is not a suspect so I can't understand why she should be punished if her travel agent and a VS employee have done some 'dodgy' deals.

Maybe I am being naive, and maybe she was the brains behind the whole scam, but I stick by the innocent until proven guilty line.

quote:why should she lose her job
It looks to me like she used fraudulently obtained miles for flights.Oh but it was the sister who did it and Jules knew nothing about it[:?],thats ok then.[:D]

[mitchja]

I'm also not convinced she's total innocent in all this and I don't believe for one minute she was unaware of what was going on.

Regards

She's paid VS back 120,000 miles for 'flights that had been wrongly gifted'? Wrongly gifted?? C'mon people, is there anyone on here who wouldn't notice such a convenient and beneficial 'irregularity' with their FC account? Even Neil?? I think not...