Samsung Employee in Wheelchair stole 8474 smartphones from HQ

#5440210 Posted on: 06/08/2017 08:30 AM

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Samsung vice chairman was already arrested earlier this year for corruption, so this dude was just following his superiors' practices. Plus it's probably nicer to own money to a legit corporation than some mafia run gambling parlour. At least you aren't in a danger of losing internal organs.

Edit: It's nice the ad on this forum page seem to be an online gambling ad for me. So fitting.

#5440213 Posted on: 06/08/2017 08:43 AM

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How Samsung managed to not notice this sooner?

#5440215 Posted on: 06/08/2017 08:53 AM

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Body scanner? Hmm well modern smart phones are small I guess but two years come down to 730 days or less with actual work days and 8500 some phones come down to something like over 10 a day having to be smuggled out via whatever means he used...

Kinda doubt he did that though but that's a really large amount of phones before they caught on and discovered what was happening.

Debts can make people do stupid things, he almost managed to pay it off too.
(Possibly, who knows how it was spent in the end, guessing it has to be paid back now too to Samsung among other fines.)


EDIT: Well I don't know how it works, I would have at least assumed a baggage check or even having to turn over items in pockets and such even if he could just avoid the metal scanner itself but maybe not?

Security should be pretty strong though to avoid data theft or someone leaving with a actual physical phone especially things like the newest models, not just stuffing an entire bag or whatever full of the things and up and leave without any checks at all.
(Wheelchair sure that might interfere with a metal scanner but loose bags or suitcases would be possible to scan.)


Although I suppose smart cards or USB sticks are even smaller and more easily concealed and they can't exactly strip everyone as they're leaving for work, it's an office building after all and not some military installation or high-security airport or whatever. (Not that that's exactly common for those places either.)

I suppose keeping inventory and having cameras worked, even if it took a while for some weird reason.
(Just a few phones going missing should have been enough to cause a response, being able to get several thousand of them out is just strange.)

#5440226 Posted on: 06/08/2017 10:15 AM

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This is how:


So Samsung were doing a good thing in offering suitable work to people with disabilities. Samsung would have tight security in place for new phones to protect intellectual property etc., they key point of that quote is this person worked with old phones and possibly those returned under warranty. These warranty returns are probably the not-for-sale phones mentioned, or they could have been surplus stock from older model runs. They probably had a very large number and wide assortment of these, and wouldn't have necessarily kept track of the exact number they had.

I thought afterthe first few thousand second hand phones the second hand dealer would have cottoned on... I'm assuming they will be investigated as well.

#5440227 Posted on: 06/08/2017 10:23 AM

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An average of 12 phones per day