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A number of sectors other than banking have their own established cybercrime scenes. One example is travel fraud. There's a whole ecosystem of people who sell fraudulently obtained air tickets, which are sometimes simply bought with stolen credit card numbers, sometimes obtained directly by manipulating or hacking the systems of travel agents or airlines, sometimes booked by corrupt staff at these firms, and sometimes scammed from the public directly by stealing their air miles. The resulting cut-price tickets are sold directly using spam or through various affiliate marketing scams. Some of the passengers who use them to fly know they're dubious, while others are dupes – which makes it hard to deal with the problem just by arresting people at the boarding gate. (The scammers also supply tickets at the last minute, so that the alarms are usually too late.) For an account and analysis of travel fraud, see Hutchings [938]. An increasing number of other business sectors are acquiring their own dark side, and I will touch on some of them in later chapters.