My husbands restaurant has had some interesting things going on lately. Due to the fact that different employees will purchase things for the company some of the managers decided to take out an account with a couple of the businesses they purchase from most often. But they didn’t tell anyone what they were doing, and they didn’t get approval from the owner of the restaurant.

Yes, the bills would have been paid as needed and on time, but it created a few heated hours when the owner (the man with the name they had used) accused them of identity theft and sat on the phone with his bank trying to get everything taken care of. In the end, they decided that they really did need the accounts but that they were taken out in the wrong way. How easy would it be to fill out a credit application with the name of your favorite business and pose as an employee with permission to use the credit? Dangerous game if you ask me!

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