a fraud where a very small amount of money is removed from each transaction and put into a suspense account (the amounts - 1p or 1c per transaction - are so small that no one notices them, but over a period of time they build up to large sums of money) nouna fraud where a very small amount of money is removed from each transaction and put into a suspense account (the amounts - 1p or 1c per transaction - are so small that no one notices them, but over a period of time they build up to large sums of money)