I’m sure you’ve had this same thought… if a criminal put in as much time and effort into a lawful job or creating a lawful business as he or she put into plotting their get-rich crime, they’d have money and freedom. The true crime case summary I’m sharing today is a prime example. Almost twenty years ago, a 19-year-old man went to prison for his first attempt to get rich illegally. The court sentenced him to 16 months in prison for identity theft in which he used the identity

Have you ever wondered if anything happens to the people behind the telemarketing scams that call victims claiming to be from a government agency and threaten the victim in order to get money from them? They typically use back taxes owed as the premise of the scheme. If so, then this true-crime case summary is for you. Co-conspirators called potential victims and claim to be a representative of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS in the USA), Canadian Tax Authorities and other

Would you know if your business had a ‘ghost’ employee? Perhaps you wouldn’t if your business had a large roster of employees. That’s why the businesses in this true-crime didn’t notice their ghost employee for six years. The 41-year-old woman provided payroll and tax preparation services to several businesses. She didn’t have direct access to her clients’ bank accounts, but her level of access did provide a pathway through payroll services for her to create ghost employees.