She Blew the Money as Fast as She Could!

These are some of the weirdest things that can happen while banking! 10-Sara Daizli Sara Daizli made Australian and international headlines not only for her bank fraud but also for her stylish arrest. She made an effort to turn heads in style, wearing a skinny gray jumpsuit and gold designer flip-flops. Authorities charged her with 112 fraud-related crimes, which is a pretty impressive amount of fraud. She used false documents to submit loan applications and launder half a million dollars. Sara worked at the same bank she defrauded and used her management position to steal cash and transfer it to fake accounts she controlled.

If you're going to commit fraud, then there's no better job than working at the bank you're trying to scam. She cried in court when she learned that the judge denied her bail, which meant she would have to spend Christmas behind bars. However, Sara's life of crime goes beyond stealing cash from bank accounts. Her husband, David Sukkar, is a convicted drug dealer with ties to Australian organized crime. And those 112 charges we mentioned are in addition to another 15 charges filed against her a year earlier. (CTA to like the video) 9 - Robert Pipes Robert Pipes, a man from West Monroe, Louisiana, ended up with this mugshot after attempting to cash a fraudulent check.

Maybe he

could

have gotten away with it, but people will surely remember your face when you look like that. According to arrest documents, the bank called police after Robert left. The manager told them that Robert came in and tried to cash a fake check. The check was for $1,941.16. Maybe Pipes thought writing the check for an oddly specific amount of

money

would make it seem more realistic. Or maybe he just needed that exact amount of

money

for something. Either way, it didn't end up working out for him. Pipes told police it wasn't his fault. He claimed that two guys had offered to pay him $200 to cash some checks.

He said that he knew the checks were bad, but that at the time he was drunk, so he agreed to do it anyway. Pipes said the boys left him on the bench and then left. No one ever tracked down these masterminds, so it is unknown if they were real or simply a creation of Pipe's drunken imagination. 8-Cassandra Morales Cassandra Morales was arrested after police discovered her unique banking scheme. She used random homeless people she encountered on the street to help her commit financial fraud. Morales made them go to banks, open an account, and deposit fake checks into those accounts.

Then she would go in and withdraw the money, transferring it to her account. She withdrew more than 20 thousand dollars in just a few months with this scam, which she carried out 26 different times. To avoid detection, Morales had the homeless person open an account with the minimum cash required. Then, once the account was opened, they only deposited fraudulent checks worth less than $200. Such low amounts do not automatically trigger red flags in the bank's system. Eventually, the banks caught on and police identified Morales and a man she used to hang out with as the main suspects. They

could

n't hide behind their homeless pawns forever.

At some point, they had to get the money for themselves, exposing their true identities. 7 - Etti Alon In 2002, Etti Alon confessed to having stolen 250 million shekels from the Trade Bank of Israel. She stole clients' money for five years, but barely spent any on herself. Alon stole money from her brother, Ofer Maximov, to pay off his gambling debts to different organized crime groups in Israel. She tried to save his life and she ended up in jail for it. Both were convicted of fraud and spent 15 years in prison for their participation in the scheme. The Alon robbery was so big that it collapsed the entire bank and cost Israel 500 million shekels in deposit insurance.

Alon's scam went so deep that it shook the very fabric of Israeli organized crime, redrawing the map of the criminal underground as we know it. Low-level criminals came to power overnight with millions flowing through their illegal casinos. According to the Israeli police, the money circulated through the underground economy. It ended up in the pockets of loan sharks, gamblers, crime bosses and other people who had a share of Maximov's debts. The stolen money sparked gang wars that lasted for years. Those wars spread to the United States when police dismantled several branches of the Israeli mafia in Los Angeles. 6 - Junior and Senior The following entries align with the more "traditional" banking scam.

You can do all kinds of fun things with your dad, like go to baseball games or argue about politics. Anthony Innarella Sr. decided that bank fraud was a great bonding activity to try with his son, Anthony Innarella Jr. They were arrested together after they tried to withdraw thousands of dollars from a fake bank account they opened. The manager of the Wells Fargo they tried to scam called the police after they tried to take $18,000 in cash. Taking out $18,000 in cash is not normal customer behavior, which makes the bank rightly suspicious. Who needs $18,000 in cash other than criminals and people blackmailed by criminals?

The manager told them that he had to verify some things and that he couldn't give them the money right then and there. Anthony Sr. left his phone number with the manager and told him to call when the money was ready. Instead, the manager called the police. Police caught up with the father and son team and found what they called a "large sum of cash" along with several fake IDs. They had apparently committed similar crimes in a nearby county. They were charged with theft, impersonation, identity theft and forgery. They should have thrown away the old pigskin if they wanted to have some bonding time.

The courts set his bail at $250,000. 5 - Jahmari Britton Jahmari Britton's getaway driver called the police after robbing several banks in Florida. However, the hit-and-run driver never engaged in any high-speed chase. He was an Uber driver who had spent the day driving Britton all over the city. Britton traveled from bank to bank, attempting to withdraw money from accounts that were not his using stolen IDs. When he was arrested, he told police his name was Andre and gave them a driver's license that listed his name as Andre Rodriguez. He claimed that he was going to withdraw all that cash for a music video, which was a pretty clever excuse.

It is quite common to see rappers spending a lot of money on music videos. When police found him, Britton had seven different IDs. Four were his and three were completely different people. He was charged with possession of a falsified driver's license, providing false identification to authorities, fraud and illegal use of a credit card. These aren't the most common crimes, so he at least gets points for being a little creative. Maybe next time he'll hire a real driver for his getaway instead of calling an Uber. 4 - Robert and Tiffany Williams Robert and Tiffany Williams, a Pennsylvania couple, faced felony theft charges when their bank accidentally deposited $120,000 into their account.

That was the bank's fault. But the couple spent most of it and actively avoided calls from the bank, quickly turning a random mistake into a legal problem. According to police, they purchased a pickup truck, a camper, two four-wheelers and a car trailer. Looks like they used the money to plan a sick camping trip. They even gave $15,000 to a friend in need. But how did they get the money in the first place? Someone deposited $120,000. However, the bank teller entered an account number incorrectly. The person who was actually supposed to receive the money asked the bank what was going on, and the bank realized that the Williams family ended up with the money.

In an interview, Robert blamed the bad legal advice he had received from some people. They probably thought the money was theirs to spend if someone accidentally deposited it. With all the checks and balances put in place by the banks, many wondered how such an egregious mistake could have happened. On the other hand, we're not too surprised by all the scammers and scammers we cover on this channel. Watch this video to learn the full story of Robert and Tiffany Williams, here! 3 - Nick Leeson Nick Leeson is an English criminal and former derivatives trader. He committed a fraud so massive that he single-handedly brought down Barings Bank, England's oldest commercial bank.

Leeson made unauthorized trades with money that was not his. And he had a bold strategy to try to make sure he always came out on top. Every time he lost money, he doubled the amount on his next trade to recoup his losses. This worked. Well, it worked for a while anyway, long enough for Leeson's boss to put him in charge of the bank's Futures and Options office in Singapore. On January 16, 1995, Leeson placed a short position on the Singapore and Tokyo stock exchanges. Basically, he bet that the Japanese stock market would not move significantly overnight. He wasn't supposed to do this, legally speaking, but he did it anyway.

That night, the Kobe earthquake hit, sending the market into a tailspin and destroying Leeson's plan. He made a series of increasingly risky bets to try to get the money back before anyone noticed, but none of it paid off. Leeson left a note saying "I'm sorry" and fled Singapore into hiding. He lost $1.4 billion of company money and the bank never recovered. Leeson remained on the run for a time, moving to Malaysia, then Thailand, and then Germany. But he was eventually arrested and imprisoned. To learn more about how Leeson basically hid his mistakes in a special "oops" account, check out the full story in this video! 2-Christine Lee In 2016, a Malaysian student named Christine spent $4.6 million that someone deposited into her bank account.

She thought her parents had put the money there. She wasn't. She actually put herself there thanks to her bank fraud scheme. Christine was a chemical engineering student in Australia. She was arrested while trying to board a flight with an emergency passport and charged with dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime, essentially stealing and spending stolen money. Saying that she thought her parents had given her the money is a pretty lame excuse. How exactly did she do it? She opened an account at Westpac Bank, where she received regular deposits that were actually from her parents.

Her parents sent her enough money to live on while she was a student, but not enough to live the crazy life of luxury she was looking for. After realizing that the account had an unlimited overdraft policy, which meant she could withdraw money that she wasn't there, she withdrew money and sent it to herself via PayPal. Over the next seven months, she sent herself $4.6 million, funneling some to two different bank accounts. She used the money to go shopping, on the largest of which she spent $300,000 in a single day. Over time, she became too greedy. The bank noticed something was wrong when she transferred more than a million dollars to PayPal in one day. 1 - Kelyn Spadoni Kelyn Spadoni was arrested in April 2021 and charged with theft, bank fraud, and illegal transmission of monetary funds.

Those are some hefty charges. So what did she really do? Well, it wasn't entirely his fault. Spadoni attempted to transfer $82 to her bank account. But Charles Schaub, her financial services company, accidentally transferred more than $1.2 million. She should have contacted the company and told them about the error. That's where she made a very illegal mistake. Spadoni transferred the money to another bank account and then bought a new car and a house. However, her spending spree didn't last long and the bank tried to recover the money. She was fired from her job as a 911 operator. She currently faces civil charges because Schaub pursued her with a case saying she ignored her request to get money back from her.

Come on, who would want to give back a million dollars? The company attempted to contact her numerous times, but she ignored them. She can't ignore them anymore, but at least she had a good career while she lasted. Click to watch one of these upcoming videos! And let us know in the comments section, would you rather have $30,000 a month for life or $5 million right now?