For example, Brazilian police arrested a group of drug smugglers who copied passenger information and pasted it on their own suitcases. In addition to other items in the suitcases, they also put drugs and transported them by air.

Another accident was in 2010, a 50-year-old woman from Hong Kong named Lam Tran Dinh went to Malaysia to visit relatives. She assisted an elderly woman with her luggage while she was going through customs, but she was stopped, searched, and found to have 1.8 kg of drugs in the bag she had been asked to carry. Lam Tran Dinh received a d3ath sentence because narcotics trafficking and transportation involving 15 grams or more is punishable by d3ath in Malaysia.