New Scam: Consultant dupes travellers with huge discounts

The summer holiday season has exposed a new fraud in the travel market. A number of Indian expatriates who made travel plans for the forthcoming scorching months complain of being duped by a travel consultant.
He offered 'huge discounts on tickets' and disappeared after pocketing the money, customers alleged. Tickets worth Dh4,000 were given for as less as Dh1,700-Dh1,800.
Several passengers who booked tickets through this absconding agent are now trying to avail refund and seek alternative routes to travel.
Mohammed Nazir, Manager, Al Diyafa Travel and Tourism LLC, said an employee of the company has allegedly stolen LPO and other office material and sold tickets on the road offering huge discounts. “We have repaid 30 victims of fraud who came here yesterday with proper receipt. Today also we have paid money to some people. Most of them don’t have receipts for ticket bookings and the employee has been absconding,” he said.
Mohammed Fazal, an employee of Al Diyafa Tourism LLC, has apparently absconded after selling airline ticket to 200-odd Indian customers.
11/06/11 VM Sathish/Emirates 24/7

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2011