In the last two months of her employment, the 28-year-old stole money from four customers, with the thefts only being discovered when one of them queried receiving a letter about money being withdrawn from a dormant account.
TSB Bank teller stole $28,000 from customers to feed her gambling addictionHow far do people go to feed a gambling addiction?
In this story we have a young bank teller, 28 years old lady, who stole 28,000$ from four different elders who were suffering from health and cognitive problems. Her goal was to fuel a gambling addiction, as presented by the defense at the court.
Families must be attentive to their elders when going to the bank and dealing with money in general. Scammers and thieves are everywhere and always ready to take advantage of the vulnerability of such individuals at an advanced age.
This is really sad to hear about, allowing your gambling addiction to get to this point where they will have to risk there job credibility just to be able to fund their addiction, such should be relieved of their job for awhile and probably sent for rehabilitation because just persecuting them may not be enough to get them to stop such habit, they will need to be helped to get them stopping such a habit because ordinarily they wouldn't stop such habit as a normal person since its been part of them and such that has gotten to that point is obviously that they are at the point where they literally need help to help them get out of such.
As for families of elders who are at such age, it will be very good if they will try as much as possible to keep their accounts active such that it doesn't get dormant because dormancy is the only reason the account could be compromised in such a way because if the account is active, the teller wouldn't want to attempt such knowing it will be noticed almost immediately.