Chapter 7
Billing Schemes
Case Study
Frequent Flier’s Fraud Crashes

1. Citation: Frequent Flier’s Fraud Crashes

2. Broad Issues: Expense reimbursement schemes, as the name occur when employees make a false claims for reimbursement of fictitious or inflated business expenses.

3. Identify individuals involved & their positions in this matter:
Marcus Lane: 35 years old Ph.D. Traveled all over his North and South America for his job as a geologist for the privately held firm specializing in environmental management and engineering services at regional office to Tyler & Hartford. He broke a basic ruled ethics: Never cheat on your expense report.
Heidi Mcllough: An account who worked at Tyler Harford’s East Cost Headquarters, Who discover Lane Transgression.
Tina Marie Williams: Manager of the internal audit department.

4. Brief description of the situation (may have to Factor).
In this case the Regional office of Tyler’s Hartford fell victim to fraud that was reformed as a billing scheme by Marcus Lane.

5. Describe the Fraudulent activity.
Marcus Lane, who bought two different air lines tickets for two different prices. On with high price departure at 6:15 p.m. and another on for low price departure at 6:15 a.m. he return the airline tickets with the high price and kept the one with low price, but when it is time to reimbursement he decided to give the company a copy from flight that has a higher price that had been indicated a departure time of 6:15 p.m. for the flight number 4578, but the boarding pass indicated a departure time of 6:15 a.m.

6. Resolution – what methods w & re used to resolve the situation?
The resolution or the methods that we used to resolve the situation, the first thing Williams did was contact the airline to verify whether the flight number and it was correct scheduled departure time was at