25/10/2023
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐅, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐒𝐃𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲
𝑶𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒄 1𝒔𝒕, 2022, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝑺𝑫10,000,000 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒖𝒅.
Following are 2 highlights that I would like to bring it forward here:
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 $10 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨,”
“𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙.”
From these 2 highlights we noted that not genuine employee could manipulate certain process using their positing and authority to do things that benefits themselves while damaging company. In certain scenarios, authorities and position sometime does make a person become more greedy.
On the paper, following are how they actually fraud the company:
𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒎, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆, 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒏’𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎. 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐-𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒎, 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐-𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔.
Even a well establish organization like Amazon also could be fraud millions by their employees, it could also happen to any organizations & SMEs.
In my career journey, I have come across a real case scenario where my client’s most trusted staff stolen their cash in safety box amounting to RM50,000 during our national day 31/8/2022. This fraud is due to that staff is in very bad financial situation that cost him to make the decision to steal company’s money to help himself go through the difficulty. However, no matter what’s the reason behind the action, this is still something that show no integrity.
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐅, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲?
I would urge all organization no matter you are a big or small, we should take this potential risk into consideration and implement adequate action plan to manage the risk. This will help protect your company from serious financial losses.
I’m Calvvinz, your risk management specialist, thank you for reading.
