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Originally Posted by dgraves
i heard a similar story years ago but it was a bank teller skimming pennies off each account. she made a few hundred thousand before she got busted. some 80 year old lady kept track of each penny in her account and when she noticed a few pennies missing she reported it to the bank manager.
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I grew up in a little town. The local telephone company had one of the women that worked there skimming from people that paid their bills. When someone would come in and pay cash she would go into the system and adjust their bill so it was a few dollars less than it should have been then she would pocket the difference. So if you came in and your bill was $56 she would take your $56, but in the system she would change the bill so it showed that you owed $54 and she would pocket the other $2.
She did this for years and years and eventually got caught when someone saw her adjusting a bill and asked her why she was doing it. She made up some excuse. They went back into the system and saw that she had made adjustments to a ton of accounts over time. They eventually set up security camera and recorded her doing it. She said she didn't know how much she had skimmed over the years but it was probably around 25K or more because she had been doing this for about 10 years.
The irony of this whole thing is that it was a co-op so every 3-4 years they would pay out a profit share to all the people that had a phone with them. They were getting ready to make a big payout and one of the managers who had access to that bank account did a transfer and stole the money. He wired it to a couple other accounts of his then withdrew it all. He quit and left town. They went to issue the profit share checks and the money was gone. He got about 150K. Funny thing is he was the guy that setup the sting on the skimming woman and was all over the paper about how upset her was and how betrayed by her he felt.