Just found this brilliant scam!!!!

[DTCwordfan]

Australian Police have been unable to recommend a prosecution for the following scam:

A company takes out a newspaper advertisement claiming to be able to supply imported hard core pornographic videos. As their prices seem reasonable, people place orders and make payments via check.

After several weeks, the company writes back explaining that under the present law they are unable to supply the materials and do not wish to be prosecuted. So they return their customers' money in the form of a company check.

However, due to the name of the company, few people will present these checks to their banks. The name of the company: "The Anal Sex and Fetish Perversion Company."

[Mick-Talbot]

why not?

[woofgang]

It's funny but not sure why they wouldn't present the cheque....after all when their cheque was cashed, the company name would have appeared on their bank statement!.... Off to look at snopes.....

[ummmm]

They could just put it into the machine.

[mike11111]

That IS brilliant! Wish I'd thought of it first!

[woofgang]

And it's a fake...
http://www.snopes.com/risque/porn/porntape.asp

[DTCwordfan]

shame - a good yarn though!

[Mick-Talbot]

it's fake?

i had better cancel my order :0(

[DTCwordfan]

Could be done if they set the Co account for receiving the cheques as TAS&FP Co and accounts payable off another account.

[vinrex7]

This was in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels in 1998, slightly different but basically the same.

[dzug2]

<<....after all when their cheque was cashed, the company name would have appeared on their bank statement>>

Why? All I get on my bank statements is 'cheque deposit' or similar. No detail at all.

And I can't help wondering if a bank would agree to open an account with that company name anywy

[dchamilton]

My mates and I formed a "club" years ago to save small sums to pay for our log cabin trips each year. I joked we should call it the Purple Helmet Club. They nominated me treasurer and I had to go the the Halifax to open an account. Luckily the woman serving me didn't notice the meaning of the name when I answered her question and she carried on working but her colleagues on either side were sniggering away.

So, present the cheque, but at a branch of the bank well away from where you live!

[NazNomad]

Lock, Stock ... 1998, lol

[vinrex7]

Why the "lol" naz?

[sandmaster]

This is an old scam. The customer makes his cheque out to a respectable sounding company. The refund is offered months later but the cheque is issued by another company with an embarrassing name. The perpetrators are relying on the fact that as the amounts are small the customer prefers to avoid the emabarassment of paying the cheque into his account at a branch where he is known. Not very relevant these days as few people have a relationship with their banks.

[NazNomad]

"Why the "lol" naz?"

Because it's taken 13 years for this to migrate to the Interwebz.

[bobjugs12]

"Its a deal, its a steal, its sale of the fluffing century. In fact fluff it Nick, I think i'll keep it"

[NazNomad]

Superb ...

[bobjugs12]

Cracking film. I think i'll have to dig the DVD out now

[NazNomad]

Me too, dammit.