We normally focus on the bigger stuff, but fake expense receipts are a reminder that insider fraud does happen.
Some random thoughts on expense receipts:
- I’ve taken taxis for work where the driver offers to increase the receipt $10 or so, if I’d pay in cash.
- They offer perverse incentives, the bus system in Seattle is often easier than a taxi, but I could get a receipt for the taxi making it free (vs $2 to take the bus).
- When I lived in China, outside most subway stops were vendors selling taxi receipts. The idea again being that the subway was cheaper (and often faster), but you could still get reimbursed for a (more expensive) fictional taxi trip.
- The real cost is repeated over and over in the comments, if you need to ask for too much verification, you’re “making all trips cost an extra half day’s productivity for each traveler”
Tags: fraud, old timey ways, records