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Embezzlement is the theft of money or property that belongs to someone else in the workplace.
Skimming is a technique that criminals use to acquire a victims credit card account information.
Employee theft is one of the most major crimes in the workplace. Embezzlement and skimming both have many cases across the world. Criminals use skimming in the workplace by using a small device called a skimmer. The skimmer scans the credit card’s magnetic strip and steals the information and that information is placed on another card and is used for purchases. Embezzlement can happen to any company at any time if there is no security protection for that company. A case example would be the Woodruff Arts Center $1.48 million was stolen
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Each embezzlement and skimming case they receive suitable sentences. For example The Woodruff Art Center case in 2012 to 2014. Ralph Clark has been charged with embezzlement for stealing more than $1.48 million from the Woodruff Arts Center while filling in as the inside's chief of offices. Clark was sentenced by United States District Judge Julie E. Carnes to two years, six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was commanded to pay approximately $1 million in restitution. On April 23, 2013, Clark pleads guilty to the embezzlement of the Woodruff Art Center. Skimming is also a major crime in the workplace. A case example, On Sept 28, 2017, Yordan Alberto and Katty Carpio-Rios for credit card skimming on I-95. The skimmer devices were placed in the local gas pumps of South Carolina and other with over $35,000 in money orders and cash. The credit cards had unauthorized account numbers re-encoded onto the magnetic strips. A few of the cards were wrapped in Victoria's Secret receipt and hidden under the car’s floor. Skimming devices can be installed inside a gas pump or a computer. Skimming occurs when cash from a sale is
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Theft is the intentional taking of someone else’s property dishonestly without the owner’s consent. Theft requires the physical elements to be supported by fault, whereby the accused either intends to deprive the property’s owner permanently, or seriously impinge on the owner’s proprietary rights.
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In response to the emergence of credit card fraud in 1984, congress passed the Credit Card Fraud Act to give federal prosecutors a broad jurisdictional base to more effectively prosecute a variety of credit card frauds. This act broadened the definitions of credit card and debit instrument to any "access device," including an account number, increased the maximum penalties of incarceration and fines, and provided a substantial repeat-offender penalty (U.S. Department of Justice, 2013).
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Nowadays, hacking systems which get the data from payment card in retail stores is a popular issue. The use of stolen third-party vendor credentials and RAM scraping malwares were the main reasons for the data breach. A brief introduction of when and how the Home Depot’s data breach took place and how the home depot reacted to the issue and rectified it by
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When attempting to understand and define professional writing, there are many questions that come to mind. Who uses professional writing? Or how does professional writing differ from more commonly practiced disciplines of writing and communicating? Upon researching and inquiring about how professional writing is used to communicate in the workplace, I have gathered opinions from scholars and professional writers of different discourses, both who use various genres to relay information. A brief definition of professional writing is a style of written communication used in a workplace. This mode of communication allows professionals (e.g. professors, business people, doctors, lawyers, etc.) to make informed decisions. Professional writing generally
Embezzlement is described in the book Criminology Today by Frank Schmalleger as, ”The unlawful misappropriation for personal use of money, property or other thing of value entrusted to the offender’s care, custody, or control”. One well known embezzlement case was discovered in 2008, it was perpetrated by Ausaf Umar Siddiqui a Pakistani American, better known a...
Another example of misappropriation of assets is when a company pays for goods or services that were not received or used. Embezzlement is a very common form of misappropriation where companies manipulate their accounts or create false invoices. An example of misappropriation of assets was discovered in 2008 and the victim organization was Fry’s Electronics. The Vice President of Merchandising and Operations, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui had set up a fake company that received illegal kickbacks. Siddiqui embezzled $65.6 million to pay off his gambling debts.
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Ethics in the workplace is a very important thing to have. Without a sense of ethicality in the workplace there are many things that could go wrong. You could even end up losing a job because of a lack of ethics, or other consequences could be felt due to a lack of caring or morality. The workplace is a place that you should show respect and dignity, and a deeper sense of ethics is very important in order to uphold these senses of morality. Workplace ethics, which include such things as behavior, integrity, commitment, teamwork, and other things, are important, if not required, in most workplaces and can help to improve performance and morale for workers and employers.
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