ARC participated in a law enforcement operation, Global
Airport Action Days, from June 6-8 that sought to identify and arrest people
suspected of using airline tickets bought with a stolen or fake credit card.
ARC said it provided fraud intelligence from its ticket
transaction database to locate fraud suspects at 230 airports worldwide.
A number of law enforcement agencies worked to arrest the
suspects after they were denied boarding. ARC said the operation produced 312
leads; 150 suspects were arrested.
The action was coordinated from operational centers at
Europol in the Netherlands, the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation in
Singapore, and Ameripol in Bogota, Colombia. It was supported by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and U.S. and Canadian law enforcement
agencies.
"ARC's risk management department is dedicated to
protecting the interests and mitigating the losses of participating stakeholders,
a goal shared by the law enforcement agencies involved in the Global Airport
Action Days," said Doug Nass, ARC's risk management manager. "We were
able to disrupt the fraudsters who target travel agencies on a daily basis."