Topic: Bank teller stole $28,000 from customers to feed her gambling addiction - page 2. (Read 1244 times)

That is an example of when someone is addicted to gambling and cannot manage it well. I am sure he chose to steal customer money because he thought if he won with a profit of 10 or 20% or even 2x then he would get tens of thousands of dollars in a short time. I am sure he did not gamble for fun but made gambling as one of his sources of income. Someone said never use your salary to gamble especially by going into debt. Now he chose to steal to gamble. This is really very bad because he has chosen to destroy his own life.

They will think how they will have money to continue playing gambling even if they must steal money from other people. They can do bad thing easily because they really want to return to casino and continue their gambling activity. That will be dangerous and risk for them because they can get in the jail when people catch them and gives a problem to themselves. If they borrow money from others, they will not think about return the money and will run away without paying the money.

She doing a wrong thing to fills her gambling addiction and thanks to CCTV on the bank that caught her doing that thing. She know about the system in the bank so she thinks that is her opportunity to have the money by stealing those accounts. Many things can be done by addicted people to gambling without we can imagine because they can find that way to have the money. We guess that she has a heavy gambling addiction that needs to cure.

         -    It's really true that when you do bad things to others, you will reap bad things for sure, or expect the consequences of what you did. It's just sad that because of the addiction that the bank teller has, he has become immune to mercy or no longer feels pity for his victim.

I can't imagine that just to sustain the health of his clients and survive in life, he even stole and denied that kind of thing, and that's quite sad and embarrassing, to be honest.

Wow guys hahah I'm still shock that my post got these much replied but I'm really agree with you that addiction to gambling is serious things and we all need to get rid of it. We need to control our gambling habit at least for now and to be honest it is crazy to see something like this ever happened


Yeah I mean the addiction is going crazy and spend those money is the real deal and 6 month is not a short of time.

This is not new, older people are the most targeted victims around the world by scammers, the older they are the easier to make a fool out of them simply because older people don't have much idea about technology, this is the biggest challenge for old generations till this day, once scammers call them they will pretend to be calling from the bank and start asking them for vital information and stuff.

In this Bank worker case she is been consumed by her greed, this is a common problem with people, not even because they are into gambling, it is something that I have seen non gamblers do too.

You will be surprised that even if she won the gambling games she might not even think about returning those money back to where they originally belong to, this could be the type of people that will take people out so that they will avoid paying back what they owe, this is one of the reasons why I don't lend money to people.

It ruins their reputation, and even their family still feels the impact of those evil deeds. This is to say that addiction has nothing to do with our lives but disaster. A gambler who can control themselves leads to stealing money, and the worst thing is committing suicide.

Many instances happen like this, and I couldn't really imagine why their lives turn like this, knowing that they know what is good and what is bad. In fact, many gamblers have been gambling for many years, but they are still doing well and enjoying it.
I think we need to learn how to respond in every situation we encounter, not by letting our emotions burst, because this will influence our mindset.

Addicted gamblers have different mindset, they will do everything in their power to have the money to continue with their gambling, no matter what the cost is, including stealing, or borrowing big money from others with no intention to return it even if they win.

So this is just a classic example, the teller see those accounts that have huge money and so she put up a plan that she is going to steal from this unsuspecting victim. And her plot works and she was able to withdraw money, until such time that she was caught. Just imagine if the banks didn't notice it or the victims themselves, she could have siphoned all the money from the old and fragile victims.

The worst part of this story is that this bank teller decided to steal from the weak and vulnerable. To carry out her criminal act, she targeted those who couldn't scrutinize their accounts and discovered that something wrong was going on. I know a few bankers who gamble, and they do it responsibly.

I don't know if Karma is real because I see many corrupt politicians who stole from the coffers of our country living good lives together with their families and cronies. I begin to wonder why these criminals who caused pain and death because of their corruption are still living big even when people say Karma exists. Maybe the karma consequences might affect their children or grandchildren.

Anyway, I will never degrade myself to the extent of stealing from anybody because it is immoral. If someone steals from me, I wouldn't be pleased, so why would I steal from someone else?

Stealing is one thing many people frown about and it is never a good story to illustrate to others because it has a bad reputation which could tanish the image of people. I know gambling addiction can be quite risky for us but not to the extend of stealing what does not belong to you. Money that is meant for someone else is now being taken away from the person without any awareness. It is good we should always work on ourselves so we don't have to put our personality into problems. Gambling is for the strong ones not for people who do not have self control on what they should do and not to do. This is a strong we all have to learn from when it comes to gambling.

Its unusual since usually men would really be that getting involved on such situations on which we know that men are really that high risks takers and taking up some actions on which they do know that they would really be putting themselves at trouble, but looking into this scenario then its really that totally different since we are involving a bank teller which is a woman which is really that very unusual.

Speaking about addiction then we do know that there's no such thing about exemptions or having those exclusions about on who would be the one to be that ending up into this kind of condition.
Everyone would really be having those chances or conditions that they would really be getting addicted. On the the moment that they would really be working into something which connects about
money and other similar firm then high chances that they would really be finding up ways that they could be able to make use of someones funds without any consent. They do know on what are the processes
and on what are the possible bypasses for them not to get caught.

You would really be ending up on such condition if you are really that making that addiction would control over you. You are the ones who would really be putting up
yourself on such trouble on which if you do find yourself that being highly reactive to gambling then you should have quit up earlier and dont wait up for things to becomes messy.

Sure, but how could families prevent this? It's not like that bank teller that steals asks those customers permission to use their money. So it's bank's responisibility to check their workers, it's not a families job. This is why banks have deep background checking. And problem gambling would likely show if they would look at their bank statements from a long time. In here, one bank forbid their workers to own or buy crypto, because they were panicking that it would affect similarly to gambling problems and when workers deal with other people's money, their security level needs to be high. You don't get that by being irresponsible, and gambling is one sign that worker just might not be responsible with money.

Bad acts have their classification, but there is nothing uglier and lower than stealing, I think that sometimes some do not understand that stolen things bring bad things, at first the wrongdoer may enjoy, but after some time things will not be the same, everything has its way of paying and there is nothing worse that can become karma, the fact that a person justifies their addiction through theft, makes things look even worse, with the simple addiction it is something very ugly, but stealing, I think that tarnishes any activity and unfortunately that is what causes addiction.

At first I was even looking at this story to be linked to a man but surprisingly, I don't know that females can still get this far be of being a gambling addict to steal such an amount of money, This is addiction and greed coupled together, I guess her aim of stealing this money would have been that she wanted to double down the money since it wasn't that a little amount, hoping that she will make an huge amount of profit.

Addiction of all kinds can lead people to stealing, but it's not an excuse. There are other addicts out there who make a solid red line that they may have an addiction but would not stoop to other criminal behavior in order to fund it. I'd imagine that there are other, deeper, problems in her life that pushed her to take these more extreme actions and she is simply using gambling to escape. Nonetheless she must be punished, but hopefully incarceration gives her the ability to break free from this addiction because it will allow her mind to rebuild her habits. She was too weak to cut herself off entirely, but this will force her to give it up because she simply will not have access to gambling facilities like she did previously - I doubt jailhouse gambling will give the same thrills.

If she go sack after been exposed, then it is going to be the biggest mistake of her life and to say that was a lady for that matter. Could it be that she lied that she used the money for something else or she really used the money for gambling as money laundering to get away with the money? The more I look into her case, the more I'm not convinced about the case but who knows, probably it's because I have not been closed to female gamblers that much.

On top of it, she never made any profit. Even if she is man, this is a very big mistake to do or a bad reputation in her place of work. If she had gamble her salary or probably sell her home properties and didn't end well, she might still be in her place of work getting the money to get back in her feet again but she decided to fraud her place of work which I'm sure she will find it hard to get another job again. Who is going to employ such addicted gambler like her.

You can ask a bank teller or even a manager if it is possible to erase transactions. Bank tellers are not programmers, their jobs are just to register transactions and give and receive cash. For them to issue cash in most cases, they need to seek approval from the supervisor. Most banking transactions are handled by third parties service providers which makes it difficult to erase transactions.

Don't forget that customers will also get notifications for transactions that are carried out on their accounts. It will take a coordinated operation between many staff in the bank and other service providers to erase transactions. The reason why the banker in OP's story was able to hide the crime for a long time was because her target was physically and mentally sick elderly people. In summary, don't ever assume that it is easy to erase transactions from bank systems because they are complex and also well secured.

Addicts cannot be trusted with money, and that is because in their state of mind they believe they can get away with anything thinking no one is ever going to find out, and even if they can get away with it for some time, eventually they will get discovered, and since this is a massive breach of trust, it is possible she will find it hard to get another job, as who will trust a person that stole from their clients and the bank in this way?

As far as they can to satisfy the unquenchable desire to gamble. It is a beast that desires food and grows as large as you can once the urge is being satisfied.

After a background check, an addiction screening should be done. Any prospective employee who doesn't consent is not fit to work in the establishment. In the end the person who bears the final brunt is the business owner. Employees will leave to other organizations even after they have damaged the reputation of the organization, therefore the employer must do everything that is within human rights and legal to keep his business from going under.

Satoshi did not do anything evil or extort anyone by stealing their funds but instead he created bitcoin to help people form fiat entrapment and this is why his anonymity is save. But the teller stole in a centralized system and she will not have the idea to erase her traces because that might make her get caught early.

As long as you are doing something bad, it will be reveal in the public it is just a matter of time. There is what is call law of Karma, it is always going to catch up with you. Another thing is that addiction will make you act out of control to take what is good or bad. This is why I am not surprised that she was caught because she has being doing it over and over again.

It's because the institution he was working in was centralized, thus, it's no wonder that he was caught. Eventually, but, still.