Rebecca and Shanti were both honest law-abiding citizens with law degrees from Sussex University, so it came as something of a surprise when they were recently arrested in Brazil for committing holiday guarnatee fraud. The two girls assertedly told the police that thieves had stolen colse to £1,000 of their possessions, including a camera and laptop computer. However, officers became suspicious of their calm demeanour and the fact that it had taken the girls days to record the alleged offence.
The police subsequently demanded to see the girls' lodgings, where they claim to have uncovered all the possessions which the girls claimed had been stolen en-route to Brazil's Iguassu Falls. Rebecca and Shanti could face up to five year's imprisonment if they are found guilty of committing holiday guarnatee fraud in Brazil, and this sentence is indeed quite lenient when you consider some of the punishments that they could face if they had committed the crime in a dissimilar country.
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In England, tourists face up to 10 years imprisonment as a succeed of making fraudulent holiday guarnatee claims. This sentence could even be on top off further penalties, such as reimbursement of the amount you claimed and payment to your tour guarnatee company. You would have notion that the prospect of a ten year prison sentence would put most habitancy of committing tour guarnatee fraud, but last year 4,300 dishonest claims worth £5million were made straight through holiday guarnatee clubs in the Uk alone.
Overseas police military and tour guarnatee companies, have now started to get increasingly more vigilant about holiday guarnatee cheats, a procedure which no doubt led to the arrest of Rebecca and Shanti. Details of fraudulent tour guarnatee claims have now been kept on an industry-wide database, which will be accessed by the Financial Services Authority and guarnatee companies. This means that whatever caught trying to commit holiday guarnatee fraud will now automatically face higher guarnatee costs and have difficulty obtaining other guarnatee cover, such as home insurance. On top of this, attempting to commit tour guarnatee fraud may also impact on your reputation rating, which would make it more difficult to gain goods or borrow money in the future.
It is reported that 75,000 Britons have at some point in their lives committed holiday guarnatee fraud, either by making a false claim or by exaggerating an existing one. Records from tour guarnatee clubs show that Britons lose more Louis Vuitton luggage abroad than is indeed ever sold in the Uk.
So many fraudulent claims, however, could see the end of cheap tour insurance, as holiday guarnatee clubs may need to put up their prices in order to make up for the losses that they may incur.
Rebecca and Shanti's Brazilian sentence may have seemed tough, but if the girls had attempted to commit holiday guarnatee fraud within the Uk then they would have risked a much stricter sentence.
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