Gang pocketed £68,000 in Oyster scam
Train workers jailed over £150,000 scam in which they issued ‘fake’ tickets and Oyster cards to passengers and pocketed cash for themselves.
A group of South West Trains clerks with more than 50 years service between them have been jailed for a ticketing scam which netted them over £150,000.
The office clerks – three men and three women – sold Oyster cards they had already created and ‘charged up’ with funds and fake rail tickets to unsuspecting passengers at Richmond station in south west London and then pocketed the money.
Their scam was uncovered in October 2012 when South West Trains bosses realised the accounts didn’t balance at the Richmond station. A three month investigation was then launched by the British Transport Police and the group were arrested in January 2013.