CASH & CREDIT 19

The Chief had decided to go along with Susan’s wishes. For one thing, he had a soft spot for her, for another, he had nowhere else to go. The only information he could seize upon was the very visible sight of local tow-rags running amok with cash cards in the high street.

It was Susan who had identified some of these bogus accounts, her keen eye spotting anomalies on first one account, then with her experience of that, more and more of these accounts which just did not stand up to scrutiny. A basic weakness in their system was identified as being the occupation question. In these bogus accounts, occupation was inevitably an accommodation address with a non- existent employer. A quick run through Kompass and other company information logs would show the genuine from the false.