There are probably as many white-collar criminals as common street hoodlums, but those don’t make the news unless they are famous.

The only time I’ve ever been tempted is when I was working at a large bank. Someone mixed up my name (a very common one) with some other employee.

What they sent me via email was the wire instructions, account number, password, balance, and other relevant information for the bank’s main mortgage funding account. Why send this by email I have no idea. But they did.

Know how much money it had in it?

$180 million dollars. Yep, $180,000,000.00 in cheddar, loot, cabbage, bread, clams, dead presidents, Oxford scholars, buckaroos, simoleons….

I sat there having fantasies for a few minutes. And then I walked over and told my boss.

Dammit.