Yesterday I read this article in The Financial Review and this is why I believe that MC would have been the one who forged Anthony's father's signature:
Mar 6, 2021 – 12.00am
When Chanticleer this week heard a first-hand anecdote about Melissa Caddick,
the Sydney woman who stole about $30 million using a Ponzi scheme, it gave an insight into her flawed personality.
The incident happened 20 years ago when a Sydney fund manager was approached by a friend and asked to give Caddick a job. After the friend spoke highly of her, the fund manager gave her a mundane clerical job in the back office.
About six months after Caddick started work, the fund manager’s accountant rang him to say there were several anomalies in the accounts. The accountant asked him to go down to National Australia Bank and check the cheques.
At the bank,
the fund manager found two company cheques worth $5000 and $10,000 with forged signatures.
He went back to the office, asked Caddick if she had forged them, and when she said yes, his good nature got the better of him. Instead of calling the cops, he gave her a second chance. He simply asked her to leave immediately.
Don’t let fraud kill financial advice
So MC forged two cheques worth $15,000 in about 2000. How much would that $15,000 be worth now 20 years later? $100,000? Perhaps if the investment manager had reported MC to police then and she went to jail, then she might have been taught a lesson that she could not get away with forgery.