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Seeking Victims in the Hopkins Travel Investigation

Seeking Victims in the Hopkins Travel Investigation

The FBI is seeking to identify potential victims who may have been defrauded by Hopkins Travel Services (HTS) between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2019. In this alleged fraud scheme, victims used HTS or an HTS agent to book and pay for cruises and other travel plans, but HTS applied the victims’ payments to other clients’ travel or used the payments for other purposes.

If you booked travel during the time period listed above, please complete this brief questionnaire. Your responses are voluntary but would be useful in the federal investigation and to identify you as a potential victim. Based on the responses provided, you may be contacted by the FBI and asked to provide additional information.

If you know someone else who may have been a victim of this scheme, please encourage them to complete this questionnaire.

The FBI is legally mandated to identify victims of federal crimes that it investigates and provide these victims with information, assistance services, and resources.

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Questions
1. How did you learn about travel opportunities through Hopkins Travel Services (HTS)? Select all that apply
2. How did you communicate with HTS? Select all that apply
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6. Who paid Hopkins Travel for your reservation(s)?   Select all that apply.
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10. How did you pay for your travel? Select all that apply.
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13. Have you been fully refunded by HTS for the cancellation of your booking?


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14. Which of these apply to your situation? Select all that apply
15. Do you have supporting documents you want to provide to the FBI? If yes, please submit electronic COPIES of any and all documentation (invoices, receipts, emails, social media responses, etc.) regarding your transactions with HTS to hopkinstravel@fbi.gov. If you are uncomfortable disclosing your account number(s) or other personal information, please redact/erase that information. If scanning documents, please initial all documents in the lower right-hand corner prior to scanning and emailing them.


Privacy Act Statement

The FBI is authorized to collect the information on this form by one or more of the following provisions: Title 28, United States Code, sections 533 and 534; Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, section 0.85; and the Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance. The information requested will assist the FBI in providing you with assistance to which crime victims are entitled under federal law. You do not have to provide the requested information; however, failure to do so may hinder the FBI in providing you with crime victim assistance. The information collected on this form is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, Title 5, United States Code section 552a, and is maintained in the FBI’s Central Records System, DOJ/FBI-002, a description of which was published in the Federal Register at 63 Fed. Reg. 8671 (Feb. 20, 1998) and which may be viewed at www.justice.gov/opcl/doj-systems-records#doj