nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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Not all embezzling by employees is complicated.
A few years ago a woman called Taylor stole from her employer which was BT.
She worked in a payments centre in Gateshead and handled cheques, which most customers paid with in those days.
Many wrote the cheque to 'B T', and she had a husband called Barry.
The method was simply to steal the cheque, write 'aylor' after the 'T' and pay the cheque into their joint account.
She was bound to be caught, and was, but she got away with it for several months.
There was a story about someone working for HMRC opening an account in the name of Inlande Revende and then doctoring cheques in the same way. This was in the days before the controls in place no over account opening.
I don't know if it was apocryphal or not but it's a nice story