NEW YORK — A Brooklyn travel agent has been charged with cheating customers out of $14,000 after a New York Arab American organization notified authorities of complaints.

Fatma Aly, 42, specialized in booking travel to the Middle East. She is accused of taking cash from customers without fully processing their ticket orders, at times leaving them stranded overseas, prosecutors said Dec. 10, according to the New York Daily News.

One customer paid for roundtrip airfare to Morrocco, but was stuck there without a return ticket, officials said. Another paid $2,290 for tickets to Greece but never received them.

“It was like a Ponzi scheme they were running,” a law enforcement source told the Daily News.

Customers complained to the Brooklyn-based Arab American Association of New York, which contacted authorities. If convicted, Aly faces up to seven years in prison.