Sneaky uni pals bag £140k in rail refund scam - by cashing in twice on late trains

Sneaky uni pals bag £140k in rail refund scam - by cashing in twice on late trains View Image

A pair of crafty university students pulled off a jaw-dropping £140,000 train ticket scam by cashing in twice on delayed journeys. Chinese students Li Liu, 26, and Wanqing Yu, 25, "exploited a loophole" in the rail refund system to make a small fortune while living together at their student flat in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Under the national 'Delay Repay' scheme, passengers can claim compensation when a train arrives late. But Lu and Yiu discovered there were not automatic cross-checks to find out whether a customer had already had their ticket refunded - a flaw that proved key to their con.

The pair would first claim refunds for train tickets - pretending they no longer wanted to travel - then