General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 04 Topic 01.doc more money on his advice. They often went out together, but Steadman found that she was the one who paid for everything. The romance never happened. Janis' spending spree brought her tremendous excitement and happiness. It gave her life a new sense of purpose. She was born into a poor family, but now for the first time she was made to feel important. She was flattered by all the attention she received from salespeople. Now, at last, she had a place in the upper class social scene. Everyone made a fuss of her. How could Steadman pay for this? Had she won the lottery? No, she hadn't. In fact, she had become a white-collar criminal. She stole the money she needed to pay for her lifestyle by hacking into the sales records of an e-business company. She was able to steal credit card details and to get money from a long list of people and companies. The funds were transferred to a secret account under a false name. No one noticed the thefts at first. Maybe nobody would have noticed, but Steadman was caught because she became careless. She started wearing expensive jewellery to work. She was seen at the Opera with Tony. She started stealing larger and larger sums of money. Clients of the e-business company started noticing that they were losing money from their accounts. Soon the police were knocking at the door of the comfortable suburban home. Her crime was discovered at last. And when police visited the harbourside apartment, they found an art collection that contained over 100 pieces and a dazzling collection of jewellery. These items are now being sold so that the victims of Janis' crime can get some of their money back. Dictionary dazzling tremendous victim glamorous to fantasise to flatter exclusive Vocabulary to get away with escape without punishment as far as he knew based on the information he had conman someone who tries to get money or other things by pretending to be someone they're not to hack into to enter a computer programme or file illegally to make a fuss of to make someone feel special and important 117 QUESTLANGUAGE