Traveling in High Style on the Organization's Dime, Part 2

As we covered in part one, travel fraud is one of the most common forms of fictitious expense schemes I have encountered during my career. Instead of overstating a real business expense, these employees invent travel activities and submit false expense reports.  

Which employees will file false travel vouchers with their employers? Of course, anybody conceivably could meet the criteria of the three elements of the fraud triangle. Every employee has the opportunity to commit travel fraud. Those who do commit these crimes have motivations and justifications for their behavior that most of us simply cannot understand.

TRAVEL FOR MORE THAN ONE ORGANIZATION  

It is common for travelers to take official business trips on behalf of more than one organization. However, this creates an opportunity for wayward individuals to commit travel fraud after they complete these trips. They simply submit travel vouchers to each organization claiming false, or redundant, expenses to obtain duplicate expense reimbursements from each organization. They use copies of expense receipts (versus the originals) when filing their travel vouchers. When fraud examiners find copies of travel expense documents in the file, it is usually a red flag.