Salami slicing tactics

Salami tactics are used extensively in geopolitics and war games as a method of achieving goals gradually without provoking significant escalation.

[3] Computerized banking systems make it possible to repeatedly divert tiny amounts of money, typically due to rounding off, to a beneficiary's account.

[7] In 2008, a man was arrested for fraudulently creating 58,000 accounts which he used to collect money through verification deposits from online brokerage firms, a few cents at a time.

[9] In Buffalo, New York, a fare box serviceman stole more than US$200,000 in quarters from the local transit agency over an eight-year period stretching from 2003 to 2011, and was sentenced to thirty months in prison.

[22][23] Salami slicing has played a key role in the plots of several films, including Hackers, Superman III, and Office Space.

[25][26] Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" has a similar plot to the aforementioned M*A*S*H episode, but with a Cadillac made up of parts spanning model years 1949 through 1973.