A recent news story describes an HR manager accused of stealing over $180,000 from her employer — online shopping, food delivery, wire transfers, and even a Hawaiian Airbnb for a wedding (go big or go home, right?).
But this wasn’t exactly an Ocean’s Eleven‑level caper. The charges showed up plainly on bank and credit card statements. She used her own company-issued card. And yet, it still went on . . . .
Fraud doesn’t have to be clever to be costly. I’ve repeatedly seen cases like this where obvious fraud continues for months or years simply because no one was looking. Oftentimes controls don’t fail because they’re complicated; they fail because they’re ignored.
So, when was the last time you actually looked at your bank statements?