Money Power Fraud Case Files
Case MPF-001 · Standard

The Borrowed Name

A church, five unapproved credit cards, and a youth minister in the frame.

The Borrowed Name case file cover

Standard · 30 to 40 minutes · 1 to 4 players · 13-page PDF · US Letter + A4

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The case

The funds that kept coming up short

It is 2018. You have just joined the finance committee of a church in Yuba City, California. The food pantry and the youth ministry both say their money keeps running out, and nobody can explain why.

Four people touch the church's money: the church administrator, the volunteer treasurer, the head volunteer of the food pantry, and the youth minister. One of them has been taking it, and the trail even points at someone who did nothing wrong.

In the file

6 exhibits

  • Exhibit A: Who does what
  • Exhibit B: Credit cards in the church's name
  • Exhibit C: Card charges, spring and summer 2017
  • Exhibit D: The church's bank account
  • Exhibit E: The youth trip and a delivery slip
  • Exhibit F: Two checks from the church account

Plus an answer sheet, a sealed solution, the real outcome, the red flags you caught, and the sources.

Based on a real federal fraud case from California, closed in 2024. Sources are listed in the file.

A page from The Borrowed Name
Exhibit F: two checks from the church account. Compare the signatures.

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