Employee theft of cash – Atlanta Georgia

Employees can steal anything, but nothing is more sought after than cold hard cash.  Employee theft (also called internal theft) of cash is perhaps the most common theft that I investigate.  The reason two fold.  First, merchandise can have limited functionality to the thief, but cash can be used for anything.  Secondly, there are more ways to steal cash than merchandise.

Internal theft of merchandise is generally straight forward.  The employee takes the merchandise and leaves without paying.  Sometimes you run into employee theft where the employee bags up merchandise and “passes it off” to a friend or family member without charging them, but these are the two main examples of merchandise theft.  An employee theft investigation into cash theft can have a lot more avenues to follow.

One way internal theft of cash can take place is by the cashier simply opening the drawer and removing the cash.  Look for large amounts of “No Sale” transactions to find this type of theft.  Another common employee theft investigation finding is cash theft by voids.  In this method the cashier will void a transaction when they see the customer is paying with cash.  They will still take the cash from the customer and give them the product; but since the void shows the sale as never taking place the associate is free to pocket the cash and there is no traceable shortage on the register.  Another popular cash theft option is refund fraud.  In this case the cashier will do a fake refund to product from the shelf or just laying around the register.  They will then pocket the cash or put the money on a gift card which they can later use or sell.  Whichever method the employee decides to use, employee theft of cash is still a major problem for retailers.

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