Q. What price a reliable travel company? Especially during this peak holiday season.

First-hand knowledge backed up by reliable, accurate and up-to-date information is crucial. Furthermore when planning, choosing, booking and ultimately paying for a holiday, it is essential to engage a company like Nomadic Thoughts, offering a secure, safe and stable service.

• Secure in the knowledge that, having travelled extensively, we know what we are talking about. In addition, our closely monitored ground representatives wholeheartedly embrace, monitor and provide all elements of your trip.

• Safe as all Nomadic Thoughts trips are personally researched, fully bonded and financially protected. We offer a personalised, reliable and efficient service from the instant you initially consider travelling, to the moment you touch down back home.

• Stable in that we carefully select the most suitable ground service providers. Whether choosing an appropriate hotel, guide, activity, adventure, beach or body massage, you can rest assured that we will not compromise when matching a destination to your ideal holiday aspirations.

Our hope is that you will, like many previous clients, return to trusting our reliable travel services time and again.

Otherwise you might come a cropper, in a manner similar to something on this list of recent fraud and cyber-crime travel stories.

• Custom phishing attacks grow as crooks create fake flight confirmations, receipts

SOURCE: ZD Net 31st March 2017

 

• Former hotel clerk indicted on fraud, identity theft charges

SOURCE: Shelby County Reporter 31st March 2017

 

• Gambia: Press Release: Partial Removal of Ban On Issuance Of Passports

SOURCE: Freedom Newspaper 31st March 2017

 

• Don’t be a victim

SOURCE: Manilla Times 29^th March 2017

 

• Mum who sold friends fake Disneyland tickets spared jail time

SOURCE: Fox News 28^th March 2017

 

•  ICO warns UK firms to respect customers’ data wishes as it fines Flybe and Honda

 SOURCE: Information Commissioners Office 27^th March 2017

 

• Hatton Court Hotel raided three times and £6,000 stolen from guests

SOURCE: Gloucestershire Live 24^th March 2017

 

• Return of Chinese tour scam puts northern Vietnamese province on alert

SOURCE: VN Express International 23^rd March 2017

• Nigerians Tricked Into Paying Hundreds for Visas, NGO Says

SOURCE: Cambodia Daily 23^rd March 2017

 

• Government watchdog holds off on probe of Trump hotel lease

SOURCE: CNN Money News 21^st March 2017

 

• Marriott Hotel continues to warn people about fake phone scam

SOURCE: Fox News 20^th March 2017

 

• Jacksonville woman arrested on fraud after holy site pilgrimages purchased, then cancelled without refunds

SOURCE: Jacksonville.com 20^th March 2017

 

• Warning issued about fraudulent air passes

SOURCE: Whitehorse Daily Star 20^th March 2017

 

• PIA boss detained in Pakistan over Sri Lankan lease deal

SOURCE: CH-Aviation 17^th March 2017

 

• EC reinstates €776mn cargo cartel fines against 11 carriers

SOURCE: CH-Aviation 17^th March 2017

 

• Airbus Probed by French Authorities as U.K. Fraud Case Widens

SOURCE: Bloomberg 16^th March 2017

• ABTA travel website hit by cyber attack feared to have affected 43,000 people

SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 16^th March 2017

 

• Brit holiday crisis: Hackers STEAL details of 43,000 holidaymakers from travel company

SOURCE: Daily Star 16^th March 2017

 

• ABTA website: Holidaymakers hit by cyber attack

SOURCE: BBC News 16^th March 2017

 

• British tourists suffer funny tummies

SOURCE: TTR Weekly 15^th March 2017

• British Sikhs admit passport scam in UK court

SOURCE: India.com 15^th March 2017

 

• Witness tells court how NAMA funds were converted

SOURCE: Guardian 14^th March 2017

 

• Lijiang suspends fraudulent travel agencies

SOURCE: China Daily 10^th March 2017

 

• Karnataka High Court Re-Issues Bailable Arrest Warrant Against Vijay Mallya

SOURCE: NDTV 10^th March 2017

• Vijay Mallya Says Government Holding Him Guilty Without Fair Trial

SOURCE: NDTV 10^th March 2017

 

• Businessman Vijay Mallya Offers One-Time Settlement To Banks

SOURCE: NDTV 10^th March 2017

 

• Supreme Court Questions Vijay Mallya On Transfer Of $40 Million To Children

SOURCE: NDTV 10^th March 2017

 

• Mum who conned families in South Shields Day Trips Facebook scam is spared jail

SOURCE: The Shields Gazette 9^th March 2017

 

• The Fake EHIC Card Scam

SOURCE: Consumer Rights Expert 8^th March 2017

 

• Airline Staffing Executive Charged with Immigration Fraud for Staff Applications

SOURCE: United States Department of Justice 8^th March 2017

 

• Common scams in the countries we travel to the most

SOURCE: The Missouri Injury Blog 8^th March 2017

 

• Former Cay Clubs CFO Convicted of Conspiracy, Bank Fraud and Tax Offenses

SOURCE: Inside The Gate 7^th March 2017

• SAA spends R21m on fraud and corruption inquiries — but nobody gets nailed

SOURCE: Business Live 7^th March 2017

 

• Protect yourself from fraud

SOURCE: Pax News West 7^th March 2017

 

• Booking a vacation? Avoid scams with tips from a local travel agent

SOURCE: WIVB 7^th March 2017

 

• Four travel agents booked for fraud

SOURCE: Tribune India 6^th March 2017

 

• Monk sues travel agency over fake ticket

SOURCE: The Khmer Times 6^th March 2017

 

• Former executive of failed Keys resort guilty in $300M scam

SOURCE: The Miami Herald 6^th March 2017

 

• David Samson avoids jail in United Airlines bribery scandal

SOURCE: New Jersey Online LLC 6^th March 2017

 

• ED summons former AirAsia India CEO and MD Mittu Chandilya in FEMA probe

SOURCE: News Nation 6^th March 2017

• Japan fighting tourism-related scams to rip off visitors from abroad

SOURCE: Japan Times 5^th March 2017

 

• Job illusions that turned out to be an airline fraud

SOURCE: The Nation 5^th March 2017

 

• Ashburn Man Sentenced for $25M Money Laundering Conspiracy

SOURCE: Loudoun Now 3^rd March 2017

 

• Police arrested woman allegedly involved in air ticket purchase scam

SOURCE: The Online Citizen 2^nd  March 2017

 

• Tip from sharp-eyed hotel worker leads to 19 indicted in international fraud

SOURCE: The Washington Post 1^st  March 2017

 

• CEO of Kenya’s Baracuda Airways Arrested For Fraud

SOURCE: Aviation Voice 1^st  March 2017