353 Million - Stolen
... convinced the loan officers to sign nondisclosure agreements. The plan was to take the money, invest it in the stock market, make the payments on the loans, and eventually pay them all off, still having millions of dollars for them to retire. The problem occurred when the head of a Japanese bank wanted to see the met at a meeting at Phillip Morris. The men amazingly pulled off the meeting, but the banker had alerted the FBI and the FBI arrested the men on the spot. It is my opinion that the men were both brilliant and foolish at the same time. The plan was decent, no better, but the execution was phenomenal. When the men were told to get a document with a Phillip Morris letterhead, an embossed seal, and an executive officer’s signature, they did just that. The paper with a letterhead was easy to obtain. Two of the men worked at Phillip Morris and procured a document with the letterhead. The embossed seal would prove more difficult. For that, one of the men went to a stamp maker in New York and ordered five stamps, four of them made-up names and the fifth being “Phillip Morris.” Not thinking anything of the names, the stamp company created and sold the stamps to the men. The executive officer’s signature would be the most dangerous. The men chose to get the signature of a high-level secretary. They drafted a document that said that the secretary had won a free dinner at a nice restaurant; all she had to do was sign a document. She signed the document and they gave her a meal at the restaurant. They carefully copied the signature from the...