Psst!\u00a0 Wanna make some easy money?\u00a0 Here \u2013 just change the numbers on this voucher, collect the higher amount, pay out the lower, and pocket the difference!<\/p>\n
Yeah \u2013 someone actually tried that one.\u00a0 And it was someone who really should have known better.<\/p>\n
Former Army CPT Abuzuike O. Ukabam, to be precise.\u00a0 He deployed to Iraq in 2006.\u00a0 While deployed he was a pay agent for local contractors.<\/p>\n
According to a recently-unsealed indictment Ukabam made a few dollars on the side while he was deployed.\u00a0\u00a0 If you consider around $110,000 a few dollars, that is.<\/p>\n
Seems Ukabam was paying contractors, upping the numbers on the invoice submitted to DFAS, and pocketing the difference.\u00a0 I guess he never heard of a contract close-out \u2013 or an audit.\u00a0 Or maybe he figured he\u2019d be long gone before anyone figured things out and that no one would be able to find him when they did.<\/p>\n
He figured wrong.\u00a0 Ukabam was arrested in Los Angeles<\/a> and is expected to be returned to Houston, TX, for trial.<\/p>\n Dumbass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"