Exclusive: Meth use by employee sparks fraud
August 21, 2014 | Drug Crime
This fraud involved a finance company. Clients had questioned non payments of refunds, yet records showed the accounts had been refunded and closed. These were old accounts that had been dormant for a long period of time.
The account details for several clients had been changed and substituted for a new account number.
The total amount defrauded was less than $5,000. The member of staff concerned had used her own personal bank account number, she was always going to get caught.
Motive
Addiction to Methamphetamine, known as P, stealing money to pay for her addiction, had already sold all of her personal possessions, including the toys of her 3 year old child.
We are seeing a dramatic rise in crimes committed by employee's with no previous convictions, who commit unsophisticated crimes, to pay for their addiction. Often the amounts stolen are in the ten's of thousands of dollars.
Unlike other offenders, with Methamphetamine addicts, there is little or no chance of recovery of the stolen funds.
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