Open your eyes again! According to British media reports: Two China students designed accurately and used loopholes in the British train ticket "delay compensation" system to defraud 157,000 pounds (nearly 1.5 million yuan) in four years
This was not a chance at all, but a carefully planned "precision strike" aimed at the goodwill of the system itself. Two China students studying at the University of Leeds eventually squeezed out of the British National Train Compensation System. Nearly 157,000 pounds were squeezed out.
The British Railway's so-called "national delay compensation" plan, the starting point is especially good, is to give a little compensation to passengers who are delayed later, but this trust is based on the integrity of passengers, but there is a deadly blind spot: the department responsible for compensation, and the department that handles the refund, is actually two information islands, the system will not automatically check, a ticket to apply for compensation, is not long ago to be fully refunded.
Just such a simple data gap, opened the door to convenience, the whole scam's failure, has beenined in such a no-one-blocked technical vulnerability, they actively study all the UK's frequently delayed train lines, turn random delays into predictable "hunting fields", and then purchase tickets layout in advance.
In order to hide people's eyes and ears, they came up with 16 fictitious identities and opened several bank accounts to disperse funds. It's not over yet. A SIM card adapter with 20 card slots is inserted into a mobile phone, which allows them to easily forge contacts from different "passengers", and one person can act as a team. This game has taken on the meaning of technical confrontation, turning personal fraud into an organized "project".
This scam started in 2021 and was never discovered until it was detected by a railway company called CrossCountryTrains. This is enough to show how secretive this model is and has caused losses to more than one company.
The most embarrassing thing is the identity of these two people, a 26-year-old boy and a 25-year-old girl, both of whom are studying for a one-year master's degree in prestigious schools, majoring in English teaching, and they had no criminal record before coming to the UK.
The relationship between primary and secondary can be seen from the amount involved: the boys took about 141,000 pounds, while the girls only got about 15,700 pounds. Obviously, this was a conspiracy between the principal offender and the accomplice. The judgment of Leeds Criminal Court also confirmed this point. The boy who led the scam was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment, while the girl who was the accomplice was only sentenced to 17 weeks' imprisonment. The judge mentioned that since she had been detained for some time before the trial, her sentence was almost expired.
It was supposed to be a career of studying abroad to pursue knowledge and broaden horizons, but because of greed, I used my intelligence in the wrong place, and finally my studies were interrupted and I was imprisoned. This is probably the biggest irony of education.
Looking back, this scam sounded a wake-up call for all systems based on integrity: without a technical firewall, no matter how kind the original intention was, it was possible for individuals to exploit knowledge and skills without the reins of morality. I am afraid it would only become a shortcut to destruction.
The above information comes from Orange News
This was not a chance at all, but a carefully planned "precision strike" aimed at the goodwill of the system itself. Two China students studying at the University of Leeds eventually squeezed out of the British National Train Compensation System. Nearly 157,000 pounds were squeezed out.
The British Railway's so-called "national delay compensation" plan, the starting point is especially good, is to give a little compensation to passengers who are delayed later, but this trust is based on the integrity of passengers, but there is a deadly blind spot: the department responsible for compensation, and the department that handles the refund, is actually two information islands, the system will not automatically check, a ticket to apply for compensation, is not long ago to be fully refunded.
Just such a simple data gap, opened the door to convenience, the whole scam's failure, has beenined in such a no-one-blocked technical vulnerability, they actively study all the UK's frequently delayed train lines, turn random delays into predictable "hunting fields", and then purchase tickets layout in advance.
In order to hide people's eyes and ears, they came up with 16 fictitious identities and opened several bank accounts to disperse funds. It's not over yet. A SIM card adapter with 20 card slots is inserted into a mobile phone, which allows them to easily forge contacts from different "passengers", and one person can act as a team. This game has taken on the meaning of technical confrontation, turning personal fraud into an organized "project".
This scam started in 2021 and was never discovered until it was detected by a railway company called CrossCountryTrains. This is enough to show how secretive this model is and has caused losses to more than one company.
The most embarrassing thing is the identity of these two people, a 26-year-old boy and a 25-year-old girl, both of whom are studying for a one-year master's degree in prestigious schools, majoring in English teaching, and they had no criminal record before coming to the UK.
The relationship between primary and secondary can be seen from the amount involved: the boys took about 141,000 pounds, while the girls only got about 15,700 pounds. Obviously, this was a conspiracy between the principal offender and the accomplice. The judgment of Leeds Criminal Court also confirmed this point. The boy who led the scam was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment, while the girl who was the accomplice was only sentenced to 17 weeks' imprisonment. The judge mentioned that since she had been detained for some time before the trial, her sentence was almost expired.
It was supposed to be a career of studying abroad to pursue knowledge and broaden horizons, but because of greed, I used my intelligence in the wrong place, and finally my studies were interrupted and I was imprisoned. This is probably the biggest irony of education.
Looking back, this scam sounded a wake-up call for all systems based on integrity: without a technical firewall, no matter how kind the original intention was, it was possible for individuals to exploit knowledge and skills without the reins of morality. I am afraid it would only become a shortcut to destruction.
The above information comes from Orange News