Readers of this blog and my new book, “How Not to Hire a Guy Like Me: Lessons Learned From CEOs’ Mistakes,” tell me they especially enjoy my stories about fraud. I have plenty more where those came from.

Fraud is everywhere, and not just at the multi-million dollar corporations I deal with. Anywhere you’ll find money and people with access to that money, you’ll find fraud. Parents even steal from organizations their children are involved with. Nobody, and no group, is immune to fraud.

Here are just a few recent examples, including the first one that appeared in the newspapers today.

• A former guidance counselor and assistant principal in the Memphis City Schools system made $120,000 from a scheme he ran from 1995 to 2010 that involved him helping teachers cheat on their certification exams. They paid him $3,000 and he paid test takers a couple of hundred to take the tests on their behalf. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

• A New York socialite got 19 months in prison for swindling corporations out of at least $20 million. She asked CEOs to give her free and discounted goods that she said she would distribute as samples and promotional packages in her supposed large network of retail establishments and other outlets to increase sales. Instead she sold the merchandise for profit.  She funded almost 200 investment accounts and purchased expensive art with the money she stole.

• An Australian man stole $20 million from his company over a 12-year period by paying almost 300 invoices to a fake supplier that he had set up. He used his ill-gotten gains to buy racehorses, motorcycles and boats and gifts for young women he found while trolling “Sugar Daddy” websites. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in jail.

• A dentist in Toronto even swindled his mom in a Ponzi scheme that netted him $40 million. He used the money for personal expenses and paid off credit cards. I hope he at least bought his mom a nice Mother’s Day present.

• A PTA president in Atlanta made news when she was found to have stolen $57,000 that was meant for the PTA at her child’s school. Instead of depositing checks in the PTA account, including several donated by a local church, she deposited the funds into a bank where she worked and was also a co-owner.

• The Girl Scout motto is “Be Prepared.” But they weren’t prepared for this. A Girl Scout troop leader in California stole $6,000 of the proceeds from her scouts’ cookie sales by misusing a debit card tied to the account. She spent the money on buying gas, getting her nails done and purchasing items at Nordstrom and Victoria’s Secret. Seems she had quite a secret of her own.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Any time there is money involved, you must have checks and balances and review who has access to that money. Go by the scout motto and be prepared.