Making $95,000+ from Junkmail? 55
frank writes "You can read a well written story about a man who deposited a junkmail advertisment check written for over 95,000$ and actualy had it clear. He has posted his story on the net and if you're looking for something to dream about, this will fill the bill. Why don't these things happen to me? "
I don't know if this is legit or a hoax, but it's really cool.
Get Over It (Score:1)
I for one had not seen this before, and thought it was pretty funny. Mabye my Publishers Clearing House one for $31 Million will go through... somehow I doubt it though.
Didn't he commit bank fraud? (Score:1)
Approx. 2 weeks ago a man recieved a $20 bill from a store as change, and thought it looked fake. It wasnt one of the new bills, just had things that looked fake about it. He took it to the bank to try to get it changed for smaller bills, hoping the bank would either tell him it was fake or not.
Since he didn't ASK the bank if it was fake, they assumed he knew it was, and now he is in jail for 5 years for distributing counterfeit money. True story, happened in Kansas.
1995 copyright notice (Score:1)
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DaBuzz.net [dabuzz.net]
News? (Score:1)
But maybe not as much fun. And I would have kept the cash, I could use $95,000 (Thats about £57,000) That would *NOT* Suck.
--Zachary Kessin
www.bored.com (Score:1)
Schematic
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otter?
Fun for a lazy afternoon. (Score:1)
Sleezebag (Score:1)
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Didn't he commit bank fraud? (Score:1)
Don't like what's posted? (Score:1)
morons...
Oh no, not spam on /. (Score:1)
matguy
Net. Admin.
It's a hoax... (Score:1)
Proverb: if you want to be believed, KEEP THE EVIDENCE!!
Rude people (Score:1)
*snicker*
You're new to slashdot, arentcha?
I don't believe it. (Score:1)
I think I'd have kept the money too, and had a lawyer handle the whole thing instead of doing it myself. Then again, he only ended up in the situation of having a legal claim to the money through a set of coincidences and luck, so that would probably have fucked it up.
given the laws that he quotes, I'm surprised that it was *his* bank that ended up losing the money (for as long as he kept it); I'd have expected the original junkmailer to get charged, which would have been just perfect.
True (Score:1)
Just because it makes it on the news doesn't mean it's true. Newspeople are people just like you and me, but probably not as smart.
BTW, a friend of mine concocts hoaxes purporting to be insider information on Star Trek projects. More than one has made it into various news outlets. We're especially proud of one project that made it into Australian newspapers as "true" information.
Advertising E-Mail is illegal (Score:1)
For juristic details see http://www.khemorex-klinzhai.de/werbun g.html [khemorex-klinzhai.de] (will be updated further in the next days).
It's a hoax... (Score:1)
Did you actually read the article?
At this point, knowing that I wasn't out to keep the money, I called up the bank's senior legal counsel and told him I wanted to give the money back. "I'm the world's easy guy to get the money back from - all you have to do is write me an official letter from the bank that addresses this fiasco from a fair point of view. I invited him to meet with me, to draft such a letter and come to a resolve, and we did."
and
"After a month of negotiations, I got my letter and was ready to return the money."
If you think the guy is a liar, just go find him and ask if you can see the letter.
Jay (=
95 grand and whaddya get... (Score:1)
As others have noted, this story is quite old (I first read it in early 1996) and seems to be a transparent attempt on the author's part to promote his book and speaking business. (I've never been able to understand why people think vibrating air molecules are worth money, but then, I'm not a professional bullshitter.) Once a shill, always a shill. Maybe Combs or whatever his name is can get a job huckstering for Ed McMahon.
Who cares? (Score:1)
It's a good story, and a well-worth
read, IMHO...
On the question if it belongs here,
Slashdot belongs to Rob, and he
decides what this site should be,
and what it should not.
If you don't like that, leave.
Didn't he commit bank fraud? (Score:1)
Also, the check was technically valid, since, as the author of the article pointed out, printing "not negotiable" on a check, doesn't invalidate it, as it does for other negotiable instruments.
So the reason the bank demanded the money back wasn't that the check was invalid, but that the check had been returned by the issuer and the issuers bank. p The bank might be able to sway a court in the direction of bank fraud if they were able to show that he both was aware that the check was intended just as a sample of checks he could receive from others, and not as a real check, even though it looked completely valid - even to the point that the bank itself let it slip - and expected the bank to accept an unendorsed check.
In other words, they would have to demonstrate that their banking services are unprofessional, and insecure, and in addition the defense would ridicule them about slipping the midnight deadline for demanding a return... So even if they could get a court to agree, it would cost them big in public relations.