And a Bag of Chips – Employee Theft

The most recent employee theft investigation we conducted started out with a missing bag of chips.

We saw an employee eating a bag of chips and wondered if she had paid for it. When we reviewed the journal transactions, we saw that she did in fact ring up the bag of chips. However, she had paid for those chips with a store credit.

It was then that we suspected this might be an employee theft case.

This particular store credit was issued about fifteen minutes before the employee paid for her snack. When we went back and reviewed the refund that generated the store credit, we discovered that the employee had created a fraudulent refund.

She rang up an item that was sitting close to the register for the return. It was not her item to refund, nor did a customer initiate it. We knew right then that the employee theft was not from the chips, but from a fake refund transaction conducted by the employee.

We questioned the employee about the transaction and she admitted that she needed the money to buy food for her and her son. It was a very sad situation that she was in. Unfortunately, her pride kept her from asking for help. She decided that her only option was to steal to make ends meet.

While the theft was inexcusable, we were able to get the employee to some places that could help her and her son out until they could find better times.

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