One embezzler within a bank wrote software to take twenty or thirty cents out of accounts at random, never hitting the same account more than three times in a year. Two programmers in a New York firm increased the tax withheld on all company paychecks by two cents each week but sent the money to their own tax-withholding accounts so they received it all as a tax refund at the end of the year. There are rumors that an employee of a Canadian bank implemented the interest-rounding scam to net C$70,000 (and was discovered only when the bank looked for the most active account to give the owner an
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