Rail Card - Evasion

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[Traveller]

After watching Watchdog today it puts this fraud in comparison when people are swindling ^1000's from music gig sales and the age old  phone scams, then you have things closer to home...

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/2317900.network_rail_fraud_sisters_ordered_to_repay_money_or_face_jail/

Although small, it is still fraud but i hope the size  of the punishment matches size of the crime.
 
I also hope that the boy has learnt his lesson. From the look of him after the guard left i think he would need a new set of underwear and wouldnt do it again.

Just because he may be "of previous good character" doesn't mean he hasn't done it before, just that he hasn't been caught!

Thats the question really. If he hadn't got caught, would he have continued to use it?

[Phil]

Sorry, but

"We have a zero-tolerance policy for those who seek to defraud Network Rail. Every pound defrauded is a pound that should be invested in the railway.."

Really? So nothing whatsoever of Network Rail's income goes towards paying their executives or shareholders?

[Tim]

The "screw up" made by you Tim, is more "accidental" than scanning in a photo-card and cloning this onto that, and printing it off and.....goodness knows what else!

As you say, you were just trying to get one over BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) by extending the date. From what I have read on this thread, the passenger in question set out and spent a long time preparing a large fraud! It is therefore more serious....

Perhaps, but it didn't take a huge punishment to cause me to mend my ways.  A bit of embarassment at the booking office was enough to scare me off trying anything like that again.

[Zoe]

Really? So nothing whatsoever of Network Rail's income goes towards paying their executives or shareholders?

Network Rail is a company limited by guarantee and so does not have shareholders.

[inspector_blakey]

A fair point, if slightly pedantic. I think the point being made was that NR^» (Network Rail - home page)'s board have a nasty habit of picking up stonking bonuses for meeting relatively easily achievable targets. I'm with Christian Wolmar on this one: about time these huge bonuses for Coucher et al were scrapped and the money distributed lower down the pay scale.

[Chris from Nailsea]

See page 24 onwards, at http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/annual%20report%20and%20accounts/network%20rail%20limited%20annual%20report%20and%20accounts%202008.pdf for some very interesting figures from the Annual Report and Accounts of a 'not for profit' organisation.

Chris

[Btline]

Any updates on this case Traveller?