The Press Association: Man admits cut-price holidays scam: "Unsuspecting customers flocked to buy tickets from Kofi Acheampong after rumours spread like 'wildfire' that he was selling them for a third off the usual price.
Up to 100 email tickets were purchased and successfully used by holidaymakers to travel to destinations such as Spain and Egypt. Typically a two-week package in Sharm el-Sheikh costing £3,000 would be sold by Acheampong for £2,000.
Travellers were led to believe they were benefiting from discounts provided to travel company members of staff, the Old Bailey heard. But in fact the holidays were paid for using stolen credit card details, with £126,670-worth of tickets illegally purchased before the fraud was discovered.
When it was found out, a number of travellers who had bought tickets had to be intercepted by police at airports before they could board flights.
Acheampong, 28, of Harrow, north west London, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud between February 2007 and November 2008. The judge, Recorder Mark Lucraft QC, said the father-of-two was a 'facilitator rather than organiser' in the scam and suspended his 12-month sentence."
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