Skimming (fraud)

This article is about cash skimming. For credit card skimming, see Credit card fraud#Skimming. For other uses, see Skim (disambiguation).

A form of white-collar crime, skimming is slang[1] for taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business (or from any cash transaction involving a third interested party) and officially reporting a lower total. The formal legal term is defalcation.

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