The Fraudies Awards

Third Home Depot worker in fraud case

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 10, 2009

Atlanta Business Chronicle is on the story which includes bribes, fraud and false tax returns.

Nine city employees fired for benefits fraud

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 9, 2009

Wow…what were they thinking up in Canada?  NationalPost.com

Unauthorized checks written at Lexus dealer

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 9, 2009

A general manager from a Lexus dealer wrote himself $835,000 in unauthorized checks over just eight months. Pretty fast for a loss that big, but it could have been prevented with monitoring. Manager charged with embezzlement.

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Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 6, 2009

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Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 5, 2009

Invoices paid for work never done

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 5, 2009

This maintenance worker had a little scam going on, but who was monitoring the school board’s books?  School worker pleads guilty in fraud case.

Receipt? What receipt? Cha-ching!

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 5, 2009

Embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his employer — also his brother-in-law — Louis Anthony Contreras has probably put a strain on the family relationship.  He was destroying the company’s receipts and pocketing the cash in his backpack.

Who wants to go gambling?

Posted in 1 by fraudies on March 5, 2009

Pay to the Order of Cesar Emilio Caceres to the tune of $835,000 in unauthorized checks written to himself.  Lady Luck was not throwing the dice for him.  Manager charged with embezzlement.