The arrest of two men over a Putco bus ticket scam has lifted the lid on a years’ long racket that has cost the bus company millions.
Sekwaila said the bus company had suspected that something was going on when it noticed its income was declining while buses were running as normal and at satisfactory loading capacity.
“Another method was that the company hired inspectors on normal week days to examine tickets. They identified unusual printings discrepancies on tickets sold and reported this to management which helped to gather intelligence,” Sekwaila said.Putco, he said, had outsourced the selling of tickets to several outlets in order to make them more accessible to commuters.
“The methods used by perpetrators is that they buy one authentic ticket from an official outlet and they then scan to duplicate the ticket, meaning that one ticket can be reproduced many times. They also have the ability to somehow scan and audit the ticket price, reference and serial numbers of the ticket they clone.”
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