Student Scams Sicily For €180,000, With 2,600 Fake Boarding Passes

A rather brilliant Italian student, it turns out, was recently accused of trying to defraud the government of the island of Sicily through the government's domestic flight discount program - by submitting thousands of fake airline tickets. The southern island, which is located on the border between Italy and Africa, has for years benefited from a state-funded program aimed at allowing its residents to stay in touch with the rest of the country. …

Italian Student's $200,000 Fake Boarding Scam Rocks Sicily

An Italian student has been charged with attempting to embezzle €180,000 ($204,000) out of Sicily’s local government over a clever airline boarding pass scam that he took to the extreme. The elaborate criminal plot is connected to the fact that Sicily offers discounts on flights for its 4.7 million residents between the island, which sits just off the coast of the mainland in the Mediterranean Sea, and the rest of the country. The idea behind th…

Student Scams Sicily For €180,000, With 2,600 Fake Boarding Passes

A student tried to scam the Sicilian government for €180,000, by submitting 2,600 boarding passes, in some cases claiming to take three flights at once. Say what?!? Thanks to aeroTELEGRAPH for reporting this, and Klaus for flagging it. Sicily subsidizes airline tickets for residents Sicily is remote, and isn’t connected by road to “mainland” Italy. That poses a challenge for Sicily’s nearly five million residents. So to mitigate this issue, the …