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gtobiast13 t1_jbolas3 wrote

> The scam should have sounded alarms, before an alert co-worker noticed a $1 million order that Foster had failed to clear out

Looks like the person also issued the credit to their own personal CC then turned around and bought a Tesla and other high priced items. If they woulda kept it in believable amounts, didn’t flash the money around, and kept it off their own personal cards they might have gotten away with it.

I worked in corporate IT at my companies HQ a while back. My office was right next to the head of internal legal or something like that. Basically his job was to deal with people charging personal expenses to their corporate CC; internal fraud stuff. I had water cooler talks with him in the hall and he would mention frequently it’s always the dumbest ones who do it and they always go all in. It’s never a few hundred here and there. It’s always absurd amounts of charges and always the most obvious indicators (like we as a chemical company don’t purchase from luxury clothing brands).

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_neutral_person t1_jbp2ul7 wrote

> If they woulda kept it in believable amounts, didn’t flash the money around, and kept it off their own personal cards they might have gotten away with it.

The article clearly states the 1 million dollar charge is what got her busted. Considering she went into super felony territory I wonder what her long term game plan was? College and a normal life was over. IRS would eventually question how someone with a 20k income bought a Tesla. Should've bought a house in another country and left.

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Mr_Diesel13 t1_jbrvz1d wrote

If she did what another said and bought it on a credit card, then refunded to the CC to pay it off, would the IRS know?

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Nolsoth t1_jbskosy wrote

If the IRS was investigating they would pick it up for sure, but if you weren't on the IRS radar then clearly no.

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chucalaca t1_jbpgg31 wrote

I work for a cc processor, we had a guy put 40k on his business card at a strip club in Arizona, claimed he was drugged, but without a police report he was stuck with the charges

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gtobiast13 t1_jbppall wrote

Big RIP. And I'm terrified of accidentally using my corp CC for a personal gas fill up because it looks similar to my personal card I use for gas lol.

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chucalaca t1_jbptijw wrote

to prevent myself from doing the same i only carry the corporate card when i'm traveling on company money, otherwise it stays at home

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CryptographerDue1205 t1_jceao44 wrote

Remember this is a 19yr old college kid (i.e not a lot of impulse control). If she acted alone I would say it's pretty smart for a 19yr old and especially for a 19yr old in retail.

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