Skimming (fraud)
Crime of taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 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.