A fraudster tried to scam more than £75,000 for missed flights to New York, Dubai, Barbados and Las Vegas that he never actually booked and even used a forged police letter. Joshua Moorcroft, 27, made 15 bogus claims with six different insurance companies for missed or cancelled travel.
The 27-year-old even used a family member's company to pretend his girlfriend was made redundant in order to claim for a missed flight to Barbados - but she never even worked at the firm. He also forged an email from a police officer in a bid to back-up his claim he was in a car crash on the way to Manchester airport, so had missed a fight to Qatar.
Moorcroft claimed he was unable to catch many of the flights using a range of excuses, including a taxi car tyre exploding, being forced to have surgery and cancellations due to the Covid pandemic travel restrictions. In October 2019, Moorcroft took out a multi-trip worldwide travel insurance policy in and submitted a claim for a missed flight from Manchester to New York just nine days later.
