Five mileage fraud patterns accounts teams miss
1. Rounded-up estimates — Employees inflate distances by 10–20% on manual logs
2. Personal trip inclusion — Non-work legs embedded in work route claims
3. Duplicate claims — Same route submitted across multiple pay periods
4. Commute billing — Home-to-first-stop legs that should be excluded
5. GPS mismatch — Claimed distance significantly exceeds tracked route
How Scootee prevents fraud at the source
Road-distance calculated from GPS point sequences provides the verified number — not what the employee reports. Session IDs prevent duplicate claims. Shift-session-only tracking excludes personal time. MobiTraq alerts flag when submitted expenses exceed GPS-verified distance by configurable thresholds.
ROI of verification
Organizations switching from manual logs to GPS-verified mileage typically see 5–15% reduction in reimbursement costs — not from distrusting employees, but from eliminating the systemic errors and inflation that manual processes enable.
See MobiTraq Alerts and [Distance Engine](/platform/distance-engine/).