I remember being told about one enterprising chap...
Remember when banks used to have little piles of blank paying-in slips in the branches, so that if you'd forgotten your book you could still fill one out in the queue?

I heard about a rather cunning gentlemen who purloined a goodly stack of these, and then printed out his own account number and sort code into the blank boxes before replacing them in banks around the area. So the story goes, enough people just looked for blank boxes to fill in, not what they should have been filling in, resulting in a couple of weeks of people paying all their hard won earnings unwittingly into his account.

I have no idea how much he made before he got caught (couldn't have been hard to catch him out, they had his account details), but I appreciate the simplicity.
( jme, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 13:40, 5 replies)

Already covered in
"Catch me if you can".

Cunning though.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 13:55, closed)

His name
Was it Lloyd Banks?
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 14:11, closed)

if he didn't get the idea from catch me if you can
there is a harold robbins book with the same thing in it. buggered if i can remember the name now, though.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 19:37, closed)

I got told about it
by a friend who worked in Natwest. I'm not sure whether it filtered down to him officially or not, or even whether it's an urban legend or not. Either way I still like the cunning.
( jme, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 22:41, closed)

Bindun
This was also done in a Sidney Sheldon book. Seems it's quite popular...
(Holy Gabrielle is Holy, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 5:16, closed)