How suspected are inside jobs?

[iswim]

I was just thinking earlier about how much easier it is to steal/get something from a place if you work there. There are so much more chances. Then of course, I thought about the suspicions there would be. But how much suspicion would that gather? Like, if an employee at a business set up a robbery with his friend or something. Would the cops/investigators ever suspect it to be an inside job?

[Clover]

Heavily suspected I imagine. Employees are just as likely to be thieves as customers; managers know this.

[Lighter]

For a robbery an inside job would not be very suspicious. When someone points a gun in your face you tend to do what they demand of you.

Where it gets suspicious is burglaries and other nonviolent crimes.

[Proots]

I used to know someone who worked at Target, in the electronics section.

What he would do was, open the case - take out Gameboy's, pocket them, close the box and move it to the very back, behind all of the other new unopened Gameboys. That way, if a legitimate customer asked for one, they wouldn't get handed an empty box and thus, the ruse could continue.

By the time anyone figured out it was an empty box, the crime would have been long gone and no longer archived on the video footage.

[iswim]

Originally Posted by Midge

I used to know someone who worked at Target, in the electronics section.

What he would do was, open the case - take out Gameboy's, pocket them, close the box and move it to the very back, behind all of the other new unopened Gameboys. That way, if a legitimate customer asked for one, they wouldn't get handed an empty box and thus, the ruse could continue.

By the time anyone figured out it was an empty box, the crime would have been long gone and no longer archived on the video footage.

I like that idea lol. Creative.

[komokazi]

I'm pretty sure most if not all burglaries are suspected of an inside job at some point.

[Proots]

To be honest - there's a little too many risky variables going on here. If you commit a crime, there's normally a certain criteria - a string of actions - that will lead you to getting caught.

The point is to cut down on those variables, to minimize if not completely eliminate your chance of being apprehended.

Your friend, on the other hand, has waaaay too many things stacked against her, at least for the moment. Reading the information you've posted makes it sound like a recipe to get caught (the car, the business, the fact it was already robbed, etc, etc).

I'd say pass this one up.

[Bender]

Depends on the store. Managers know employes are more prone to steal because to them its easier, more access and less likely to get caught.

[Biggz-K24]

Only as suspicious as you make it out to be.

[mcdouble]

Originally Posted by Midge

I used to know someone who worked at Target, in the electronics section.

What he would do was, open the case - take out Gameboy's, pocket them, close the box and move it to the very back, behind all of the other new unopened Gameboys. That way, if a legitimate customer asked for one, they wouldn't get handed an empty box and thus, the ruse could continue.

By the time anyone figured out it was an empty box, the crime would have been long gone and no longer archived on the video footage.

A friend of mine (an actual friend) did this working at K-B Toys a while back. It was a Dreamcast, which should tell you how long ago this happened. It wasn't found until long after he had quit, and they fired someone else for it. Genius.

[iswim]

Originally Posted by mcdouble

A friend of mine (an actual friend) did this working at K-B Toys a while back. It was a Dreamcast, which should tell you how long ago this happened. It wasn't found until long after he had quit, and they fired someone else for it. Genius.

LMAO

[Lighter]

Originally Posted by mcdouble

A friend of mine (an actual friend) did this working at K-B Toys a while back. It was a Dreamcast, which should tell you how long ago this happened. It wasn't found until long after he had quit, and they fired someone else for it. Genius.

That sucks for that person. Finding a job in retail after getting fired for stealing stuff at work is impossible.

[i am somebody]

its how the perps would have got the info to do the job in the first place that gives it away most of the time. but even so, its always a possability the cops look at.

[mcdouble]

Originally Posted by Lighter

That sucks for that person. Finding a job in retail after getting fired for stealing stuff at work is impossible.

I'm of the opinion that if somebody else went down for it, they were probably stealing other shit, too. That's the risk you take.