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A man walks into a bank

By Patrick Combs
Patrick Combs deposits a junk-mail cheque for $95,000 – for a joke. The
bank cashes it
[image: Patrick Combs with his fake cheque, which arrived as junk mail]©Sandy
Huffaker

Patrick Combs's fake cheque, which arrived as junk mail

It was a cheque, made out in my name, for $95,093.35 and it came in a
junk-mail letter from a get-rich-quick company. It was worthless, meant
only as a financial tease, a lip-licking come-on. “This is how much money
you could soon be making.” What it was never meant for was deposit. But
that’s exactly what made the thought of depositing it so irresistibly
funny. What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly
ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque? (Did I mention it had
“non-negotiable” clearly written on it?) So, as a joke, I deposited the
fake cheque into my bank’s ATM. I felt like a million bucks doing so. I’d
never had so much fun at my bank. Come to think of it, I’d never had any
fun at my bank until the moment I endorsed the back of this “cheque” with a
smiley face and slipped the Monopoly-like money into the mouth of the
hungry ATM. For the first time ever, I walked away from my bank laughing.

What I expected to happen next was a short phone call from my bank. Or a
letter informing me of what I already knew, that the cheque I deposited was
not real. Admittedly, I also hoped for a compliment on my refined sense of
humour. A “Mr Combs, what you deposited was not real but very funny,
especially considering your real bank account balance history” (an account
always bouncing into overdraft).

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But the call or the letter never came and I forgot about my joke. Then,
five days later, I returned to withdraw some cash from the ATM, and noticed
a much higher than usual bank balance. $95,093.35 higher! The bank had
credited my account with the fake, false, stupid cheque!

We all know it should have ended there. Fake cheque. Bank mistake. Give it
back. But easier said than done. Especially considering the series of
events that happened next.

The first friend I phoned informed me that it was no mistake at all. Just
standard bank policy, crediting my account with the dollar amount but
putting a hold on all the funds until the cheque bounced. I couldn’t touch
the money and my bank balance would be embarrassing again in three days.
[image: Patrick Combs]©Sandy Huffaker

Patrick Combs

But seven long days later the lottery-like amount was still there and I
visited the bank where an employee told me that the funds were now all
available for cash withdrawal. All $95,093.35 was mine for the taking. All
I had to do was ask. Windfall money begs us to take it and run. But I
restrained myself. And gave the bank another two excruciatingly long weeks
to do their job, catch up with their mistake, and bounce the cheque. But at
the end of three hellish weeks, during which I hourly resisted the urge to
take the money and run to Mexico, where it would be worth twice as much, I
was told by my branch manager, “You’re safe to start spending the money, Mr
Combs. A cheque cannot bounce after 10 days. You’re protected by the law.”

Now, it’s possible that any thinking man would have asked for a satchel and
all the cash right then and there. Me, I must lack the gene for seizing the
moment, because I didn’t touch the money. I drove myself straight to a law
library to confirm for myself the 10-day rule. This triggered two
discoveries. First, that my branch manager was wrong. There is no 10-day
rule that protects you on a bounced cheque. It is a 24-hour rule! In the
United States, when a bank receives notice that a cheque paid into your
account has bounced, it has 24 hours to notify you and, if it fails to do
this, you are safe to spend the money. Pretty neat, I say. Secondly, I
learned that what I thought was a fake cheque was legally a real cheque. A
little-known change in the 1990 Uniform Commercial Code made it so that the
words “non-negotiable” printed on a cheque do not invalidate it. It may
have been just a small footnote change but what I deposited was,
marvellously, an accidentally real $95,093.35 cheque.

Now, I’m slow but not that slow. I withdrew a cashier’s cheque and locked
it in a deposit box for safe keeping. I fully expected that the junk-mail
king who had accidentally mailed out millions of real $95,000 cheques would
be calling me soon, begging for his money back. I anticipated a very
interesting conversation, as I’m not a big fan of get-rich-quick schemes.
But what happened next was quite unexpected. My bank confiscated my ATM
card. Locked me out of my account. And sent a man who I can only describe
as very, very angry, to call on me.

It was interesting, not just frightening, to be yelled at by the bank’s
senior security officer. Frightening because he threatened to send
policemen to my doorstep if I did not immediately comply with his request
for the money back. But interesting because, up until that terrifying phone
call, I thought this was between me and the junk-mailer who’d sent out the
accidentally real big money cheques. Until this moment in the saga, I
thought my bank and I were good. Good like it said on my ATM card, “Patrick
Combs, Customer in Good Standing for 12 Years.”

. . .

Politeness, courtesy and compliments on my sense of humour will get you
everywhere with me. I can state with certainty that, had I received a call
from the branch manager instead of the bank’s ex-military security officer
and the manager had said, “Mr Combs, Patrick, may I call you Patrick? I see
we made a mistake and cashed a junk-mail cheque. Our bad! May we have the
money back?” I’d have returned the $95,093.35 to the bank that same
afternoon. I’d have secretly hoped for free banking for a year but, no
matter what, I’d have returned the dough, pronto. I’m quick to understand
that everyone makes mistakes and it was, after all, just a joke. But the
bank’s approach was not polite, or courteous, and neither did it take any
responsibility for the mistakes the bank made, which were now piling up.
Most other businesses would, I like to imagine, having realised their
mistake, approached the customer in a polite, civil manner. Not the bank,
they began with their attack dog, released their sharks and then later sent
in their men in black (literally, not figuratively, but I’m getting ahead
of the story).

So my response to the bank’s security officer was simple: “Give me a letter
on official bank stationery stating that you are who you say you are, that
you indeed work for the bank, and also put in that letter the reason why
the bank is requesting the money back, as I’m a little confused on that.
When I get that letter we’ll go from there.” And his response, to
paraphrase and keep this article profanity-free, was: “Never!”

When I was a boy my mother made me write and get letters for everything. I
had to write a letter to request a pocket knife from her. I had to get a
letter from the man at the hardware store who said he’d hire me. I had to
give a letter to the old lady across the street to apologise for the racket
my friends and I had made. I emerged from my childhood with a peculiar
belief in the power of the letter to make everything official. “You’re not
getting any letter from the bank. Never!” were fighting words to me.

So I fought the bank for a letter and the bank fought back for the money.
My stance was, “No letter taking responsibility for your mistakes, no
return of the money which is legally mine.” Word of our stand-off got out
and went viral on the internet, filling my inbox with emails, 99 per cent
of which were from people cheering for me to stick it to the bank, the
other 1 per cent from people who felt I should give back the money. The
story also made the press, brought the highest legal authorities in the
land on bank cheque law out of retirement, and even caught the interest of
the great prankster himself, David Letterman.

Knowing I had $95,093.35 locked in a safe deposit box that I’d obtained
from a junk-mail cheque but which was, by three laws, legally mine, the San
Jose Mercury newspaper ran the headline: “Man 1, Bank 0.”

Of course, everyone knew that the bank wasn’t just going to forfeit the
fight. Everyone sensed they’d come out swinging. The newscaster Diane
Sawyer perhaps stated the public perception about banks best when she
commented on my expressed desire for a pleasant resolve with the bank over
lunch. She said, to all who were watching the evening news that night: “I
wouldn’t count on that lunch, Patrick.”

Diane Sawyer knows what most people feel about banks. Banks don’t do
business like the rest of us do business. Banks don’t do lunch to resolve
an issue. They send a lawyer. Banks don’t care about your rights. They care
about their rights. (Read your bank’s provided explanation of your banking
rights, if you don’t believe me.) Banks don’t care about your bank balance.
They care about their bank balance. And what banks really don’t do is take
responsibility for their mistakes. They enforce penalties for ours.

. . .

After some thought, I decided to do a comedic one-man show telling my story
around the world. In the show, I’m not ranting against banks like an angry
town hall protestor but, rather, giving audiences laughs over my bank’s
mistakes. I like telling a story that has a laugh at a bank’s expense.

So far the show has been a hit, with a month-long off-Broadway run in New
York, and the appetite for it seems to have been fuelled by the financial
crisis and a sense that the banks have screwed us over. It got another big
boost last year after banks in Ireland collapsed that economy. I was able
to go there largely unknown and play back-to-back countrywide tours. At one
point in the show, when I would refer to a particularly fiendish Irish
bank, the audience would go nuts, overjoyed that I was aware and also
against the bank that had done them wrong. Patrons stood in long lines
afterwards to make sure I understood just how awful Irish banks were. Some
took home the book or DVD with the purpose of giving it to their banker for
a lesson in manners.

Next I’m performing in Scotland, where, as I understand it, banks have also
done a fine job of laying the foundation of success for me. And I see in
the papers that I’ll likely soon owe Barclays a thank-you note also.
Therein lies an irony. I owe despicable banks so much. Not just for the
blunders that are the very basis of my show but also for the actions that
have continued to create a ripe environment for my show for 10 years and
counting.

At the end of the show, I reveal what, in an attempt to teach my bank a
lesson in customer service, I did with the $95,000. But I don’t think that
the bank did learn anything. Banks and bad behaviour, in my experience, are
hardwired together. And you can take that to the bank. I did.

‘Man 1, Bank 0’ is at the Gilded Balloon Teviot in Edinburgh from August
11-26. Tel: +44 (0)131 622 6552; www.gildedballoon.co.uk

.......................................................................

Do not collect €200m

In real life, unlike in Monopoly, a “bank error in your favour” doesn’t
always end favourably, writes Peter Leggatt. In April 2009 Leo Gao
checked his laptop one night in Rotorua, New Zealand, and, according to his
partner Kara Hurring, began “yahooing and yelling as if he was on another
planet” – but wouldn’t tell her why.

In fact, a worker at New Zealand’s Westpac bank had mistakenly allocated
Gao an overdraft of NZ$10m (£5.2m) rather than the NZ$100,000 he had
requested. He withdrew NZ$6,782,000 in several instalments (the largest of
which was NZ$2.3m), closed his failing gas station and fled to China with
Hurring – although she claimed that she knew nothing of the windfall until
she saw it on Chinese television.

Gao was arrested in September 2011, after two and a half years on the run,
when he triggered an Interpol red alert crossing from China to Hong Kong.
Hurring was arrested earlier this year when she returned to New Zealand. A
trial in March found her guilty of 30 charges of theft, attempting
dishonestly to use a bank card, and international money laundering. Gao
will be sentenced later this month.

But lucky recipients don’t always “go directly to jail”. Last April, a
businessman referred to in the German media as Michael H sold some shares
for €20,000. His online bank, Comdirect, credited him with €200m instead.
Having received 10,000 times the amount he was expecting, Michael H seized
the moment and transferred €10m of it into his current account in a
different bank. Comdirect has since managed to regain the €200m but Michael
H has been allowed to keep the €12,000 interest the money earned while it
was resting in his account overnight. The bank initially demanded its
return but Michael H successfully sued the bank in May.

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Read that story. There is another real case of New Zealand in the end.
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A man walks into a bank

By Patrick Combs
Patrick Combs deposits a junk-mail cheque for $95,000 – for a joke. The
bank cashes it
[image: Patrick Combs with his fake cheque, which arrived as junk
mail]©Sandy
Huffaker

Patrick Combs's fake cheque, which arrived as junk mail

It was a cheque, made out in my name, for $95,093.35 and it came in a
junk-mail letter from a get-rich-quick company. It was worthless, meant
only as a financial tease, a lip-licking come-on. “This is how much money
you could soon be making.” What it was never meant for was deposit. But
that’s exactly what made the thought of depositing it so irresistibly
funny. What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly
ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque? (Did I mention it had
“non-negotiable” clearly written on it?) So, as a joke, I deposited the
fake cheque into my bank’s ATM. I felt like a million bucks doing so. I’d
never had so much fun at my bank. Come to think of it, I’d never had any
fun at my bank until the moment I endorsed the back of this “cheque” with
a
smiley face and slipped the Monopoly-like money into the mouth of the
hungry ATM. For the first time ever, I walked away from my bank laughing.

What I expected to happen next was a short phone call from my bank. Or a
letter informing me of what I already knew, that the cheque I deposited
was
not real. Admittedly, I also hoped for a compliment on my refined sense of
humour. A “Mr Combs, what you deposited was not real but very funny,
especially considering your real bank account balance history” (an account
always bouncing into overdraft).

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But the call or the letter never came and I forgot about my joke. Then,
five days later, I returned to withdraw some cash from the ATM, and
noticed
a much higher than usual bank balance. $95,093.35 higher! The bank had
credited my account with the fake, false, stupid cheque!

We all know it should have ended there. Fake cheque. Bank mistake. Give it
back. But easier said than done. Especially considering the series of
events that happened next.

The first friend I phoned informed me that it was no mistake at all. Just
standard bank policy, crediting my account with the dollar amount but
putting a hold on all the funds until the cheque bounced. I couldn’t touch
the money and my bank balance would be embarrassing again in three days.
[image: Patrick Combs]©Sandy Huffaker

Patrick Combs

But seven long days later the lottery-like amount was still there and I
visited the bank where an employee told me that the funds were now all
available for cash withdrawal. All $95,093.35 was mine for the taking. All
I had to do was ask. Windfall money begs us to take it and run. But I
restrained myself. And gave the bank another two excruciatingly long weeks
to do their job, catch up with their mistake, and bounce the cheque. But
at
the end of three hellish weeks, during which I hourly resisted the urge to
take the money and run to Mexico, where it would be worth twice as much, I
was told by my branch manager, “You’re safe to start spending the money,
Mr
Combs. A cheque cannot bounce after 10 days. You’re protected by the law.”

Now, it’s possible that any thinking man would have asked for a satchel
and
all the cash right then and there. Me, I must lack the gene for seizing
the
moment, because I didn’t touch the money. I drove myself straight to a law
library to confirm for myself the 10-day rule. This triggered two
discoveries. First, that my branch manager was wrong. There is no 10-day
rule that protects you on a bounced cheque. It is a 24-hour rule! In the
United States, when a bank receives notice that a cheque paid into your
account has bounced, it has 24 hours to notify you and, if it fails to do
this, you are safe to spend the money. Pretty neat, I say. Secondly, I
learned that what I thought was a fake cheque was legally a real cheque. A
little-known change in the 1990 Uniform Commercial Code made it so that
the
words “non-negotiable” printed on a cheque do not invalidate it. It may
have been just a small footnote change but what I deposited was,
marvellously, an accidentally real $95,093.35 cheque.

Now, I’m slow but not that slow. I withdrew a cashier’s cheque and locked
it in a deposit box for safe keeping. I fully expected that the junk-mail
king who had accidentally mailed out millions of real $95,000 cheques
would
be calling me soon, begging for his money back. I anticipated a very
interesting conversation, as I’m not a big fan of get-rich-quick schemes.
But what happened next was quite unexpected. My bank confiscated my ATM
card. Locked me out of my account. And sent a man who I can only describe
as very, very angry, to call on me.

It was interesting, not just frightening, to be yelled at by the bank’s
senior security officer. Frightening because he threatened to send
policemen to my doorstep if I did not immediately comply with his request
for the money back. But interesting because, up until that terrifying
phone
call, I thought this was between me and the junk-mailer who’d sent out the
accidentally real big money cheques. Until this moment in the saga, I
thought my bank and I were good. Good like it said on my ATM card,
“Patrick
Combs, Customer in Good Standing for 12 Years.”

. . .

Politeness, courtesy and compliments on my sense of humour will get you
everywhere with me. I can state with certainty that, had I received a call
from the branch manager instead of the bank’s ex-military security officer
and the manager had said, “Mr Combs, Patrick, may I call you Patrick? I
see
we made a mistake and cashed a junk-mail cheque. Our bad! May we have the
money back?” I’d have returned the $95,093.35 to the bank that same
afternoon. I’d have secretly hoped for free banking for a year but, no
matter what, I’d have returned the dough, pronto. I’m quick to understand
that everyone makes mistakes and it was, after all, just a joke. But the
bank’s approach was not polite, or courteous, and neither did it take any
responsibility for the mistakes the bank made, which were now piling up.
Most other businesses would, I like to imagine, having realised their
mistake, approached the customer in a polite, civil manner. Not the bank,
they began with their attack dog, released their sharks and then later
sent
in their men in black (literally, not figuratively, but I’m getting ahead
of the story).

So my response to the bank’s security officer was simple: “Give me a
letter
on official bank stationery stating that you are who you say you are, that
you indeed work for the bank, and also put in that letter the reason why
the bank is requesting the money back, as I’m a little confused on that.
When I get that letter we’ll go from there.” And his response, to
paraphrase and keep this article profanity-free, was: “Never!”

When I was a boy my mother made me write and get letters for everything. I
had to write a letter to request a pocket knife from her. I had to get a
letter from the man at the hardware store who said he’d hire me. I had to
give a letter to the old lady across the street to apologise for the
racket
my friends and I had made. I emerged from my childhood with a peculiar
belief in the power of the letter to make everything official. “You’re not
getting any letter from the bank. Never!” were fighting words to me.

So I fought the bank for a letter and the bank fought back for the money.
My stance was, “No letter taking responsibility for your mistakes, no
return of the money which is legally mine.” Word of our stand-off got out
and went viral on the internet, filling my inbox with emails, 99 per cent
of which were from people cheering for me to stick it to the bank, the
other 1 per cent from people who felt I should give back the money. The
story also made the press, brought the highest legal authorities in the
land on bank cheque law out of retirement, and even caught the interest of
the great prankster himself, David Letterman.

Knowing I had $95,093.35 locked in a safe deposit box that I’d obtained
from a junk-mail cheque but which was, by three laws, legally mine, the
San
Jose Mercury newspaper ran the headline: “Man 1, Bank 0.”

Of course, everyone knew that the bank wasn’t just going to forfeit the
fight. Everyone sensed they’d come out swinging. The newscaster Diane
Sawyer perhaps stated the public perception about banks best when she
commented on my expressed desire for a pleasant resolve with the bank over
lunch. She said, to all who were watching the evening news that night: “I
wouldn’t count on that lunch, Patrick.”

Diane Sawyer knows what most people feel about banks. Banks don’t do
business like the rest of us do business. Banks don’t do lunch to resolve
an issue. They send a lawyer. Banks don’t care about your rights. They
care
about their rights. (Read your bank’s provided explanation of your banking
rights, if you don’t believe me.) Banks don’t care about your bank
balance.
They care about their bank balance. And what banks really don’t do is take
responsibility for their mistakes. They enforce penalties for ours.

. . .

After some thought, I decided to do a comedic one-man show telling my
story
around the world. In the show, I’m not ranting against banks like an angry
town hall protestor but, rather, giving audiences laughs over my bank’s
mistakes. I like telling a story that has a laugh at a bank’s expense.

So far the show has been a hit, with a month-long off-Broadway run in New
York, and the appetite for it seems to have been fuelled by the financial
crisis and a sense that the banks have screwed us over. It got another big
boost last year after banks in Ireland collapsed that economy. I was able
to go there largely unknown and play back-to-back countrywide tours. At
one
point in the show, when I would refer to a particularly fiendish Irish
bank, the audience would go nuts, overjoyed that I was aware and also
against the bank that had done them wrong. Patrons stood in long lines
afterwards to make sure I understood just how awful Irish banks were. Some
took home the book or DVD with the purpose of giving it to their banker
for
a lesson in manners.

Next I’m performing in Scotland, where, as I understand it, banks have
also
done a fine job of laying the foundation of success for me. And I see in
the papers that I’ll likely soon owe Barclays a thank-you note also.
Therein lies an irony. I owe despicable banks so much. Not just for the
blunders that are the very basis of my show but also for the actions that
have continued to create a ripe environment for my show for 10 years and
counting.

At the end of the show, I reveal what, in an attempt to teach my bank a
lesson in customer service, I did with the $95,000. But I don’t think that
the bank did learn anything. Banks and bad behaviour, in my experience,
are
hardwired together. And you can take that to the bank. I did.

‘Man 1, Bank 0’ is at the Gilded Balloon Teviot in Edinburgh from August
11-26. Tel: +44 (0)131 622 6552; www.gildedballoon.co.uk

.......................................................................

Do not collect €200m

In real life, unlike in Monopoly, a “bank error in your favour” doesn’t
always end favourably, writes Peter Leggatt. In April 2009 Leo Gao
checked his laptop one night in Rotorua, New Zealand, and, according to
his
partner Kara Hurring, began “yahooing and yelling as if he was on another
planet” – but wouldn’t tell her why.

In fact, a worker at New Zealand’s Westpac bank had mistakenly allocated
Gao an overdraft of NZ$10m (£5.2m) rather than the NZ$100,000 he had
requested. He withdrew NZ$6,782,000 in several instalments (the largest of
which was NZ$2.3m), closed his failing gas station and fled to China with
Hurring – although she claimed that she knew nothing of the windfall until
she saw it on Chinese television.

Gao was arrested in September 2011, after two and a half years on the run,
when he triggered an Interpol red alert crossing from China to Hong Kong.
Hurring was arrested earlier this year when she returned to New Zealand. A
trial in March found her guilty of 30 charges of theft, attempting
dishonestly to use a bank card, and international money laundering. Gao
will be sentenced later this month.

But lucky recipients don’t always “go directly to jail”. Last April, a
businessman referred to in the German media as Michael H sold some shares
for €20,000. His online bank, Comdirect, credited him with €200m instead.
Having received 10,000 times the amount he was expecting, Michael H seized
the moment and transferred €10m of it into his current account in a
different bank. Comdirect has since managed to regain the €200m but
Michael
H has been allowed to keep the €12,000 interest the money earned while it
was resting in his account overnight. The bank initially demanded its
return but Michael H successfully sued the bank in May.

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, curzed notifications@github.com wrote:

Is the article only on that site? I gotta register
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Read that story. There is another real case of New Zealand in the end.
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I can't open www.5ta.co. Could you?

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[curzed]

Nope for the past couple of hours now
On Nov 22, 2012 6:43 PM, "Joelone" notifications@github.com wrote:

I can't open www.5ta.co. Could you?

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[Joelone]

From what I can see, 5ta.co was hosting on justhost.com. The server is
still alive, he probably forget to pay the rental.

C:\Users\Joel>nslookup

www.5ta.co

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: 5ta.co
Address: 173.254.28.134
Aliases: www.5ta.co

Tracing route to www.5ta.co.
Be patient, this will take a while (there is intentional slow-down to

prevent abuse)...

traceroute to www.5ta.co (173.254.28.134), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
...
...
17 tg1-1.ar02.prov.acedc.net
(199.58.196.41) 129.523 ms 128.908 ms 127.114 ms
18 199.58.199.118 (199.58.199.118) 161.912 ms 129.207 ms 126.599 ms
19 just134.justhost.com
(173.254.28.134) 126.255 ms 126.206 ms 126.228 ms

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:45 PM, curzed notifications@github.com wrote:

Nope for the past couple of hours now
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I can't open www.5ta.co. Could you?

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Woah that's interesting
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