Payroll Fraud: Easy Ways to Steal
Payroll fraud is quite common. Sometimes the theft occurs as a payroll department employee secretly inflates payments to family…
Stealing While Dying: A Motive for Fraud
Some fraudsters steal while dying. What’s their motive? Possibly to avoid leaving their family with medical bills. Whatever the…
Inflated Invoices: An Easy Way to Steal
Fraudsters can steal with inflated invoices. In the story below, you’ll see that a school maintenance director was able…
How to Steal by Double Paying a Vendor
The Theft Fraudsters can steal by double paying a vendor. In this article, I show you how duplicate payments…
Fraudsters Writing Checks to Themselves: How to Understand It and Prevent It
The Theft Fraudsters do write company checks to themselves. Today I tell you how they do so and how…
Converting Company Checks to Cash
The Theft: Converting Company Checks to Cash In a recent post, we saw that John opens the mail and…
Theft of Capital Assets in Local Governments
Theft of Capital Assets In businesses, nonprofits, and governments, the theft of capital assets happens often. Today I explain…
Check-for-Cash Fraud: Easy Theft
The Theft: Check-for-Cash The check-for-cash fraud scheme is a simple yet effective way for employees to steal. Today I…
Ghost Employee Fraud: Payroll Theft
In this article I explain ghost employee fraud and what you can do to prevent it. The Theft: Ghost…