<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Patrick Combs was sent a phony advertising check for $95.000 : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/law/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>56185</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56185/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Patrick Combs was sent a phony advertising check for $95.000]]></title><description><![CDATA[So he deposited it into his bank account with a smiley face endorsement.  Funny that the advertisers who mailed it had included all the legal qualifications for a check instrument.<br/><br/>The bank cashed it - hilarity ensues.  <br/><br/>*This is a multi-page story, links to the next page are at the bottom in teeny text.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>503</score><crdate>3/28/2008 9:48:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-28T21:48:17+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/law/l/56185/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (7)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/law/l/56185-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/law/l/56185-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/law/l/56185-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/law/l/56185/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>228603</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q8</url><title><![CDATA[suebe @ 3/29/2008 3:25:33 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I remember when this happened. <br/><br/>I once cashed a $5 advertising check. The company that issued it kept calling and calling, but in the end they gave up.]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/29/2008 3:25:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-29T15:25:33+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228601</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[tragluk @ 3/29/2008 3:18:28 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/law/l/56185/1/#q6"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><br/>I still don't understand why he paid the $65 interest so they would let him give their money that they gave to him by mistake back.</i></div>Morals and Ethics.  He refuses to take money he didn't earn.  The $65 was interest money he was given because he had 95,000 in his account.  So he gave back the $65 as well as the 95,000.<br/><br/>It's easy to say &quot;Their mistake, ha ha, I have your money and there is nothing you can do about it&quot; it's hard to give the money back.]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/29/2008 3:18:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-29T15:18:28+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228470</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[thebluefrog @ 3/29/2008 5:16:51 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/law/l/56185/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>taryn13</b> : i cant believe i just sat and read that whole thing at 4 am. well, it was a good read, but i am a little confused. where did the money go in the end? it ended with him talking about the montel show.</i></div>You must have missed the last 2 or 3 pages there...<br/><br/>He gave the check back to his bank, because they were out that money.<br/><br/>I still don't understand why he paid the $65 interest so they would let him give their money that they gave to him by mistake back.]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/29/2008 5:16:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-29T05:16:51+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228466</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[taryn13 @ 3/29/2008 4:56:23 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[i cant believe i just sat and read that whole thing at 4 am. well, it was a good read, but i am a little confused. where did the money go in the end? it ended with him talking about the montel show.]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/29/2008 4:56:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-29T04:56:23+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228455</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[kidsizedcoffin @ 3/29/2008 3:55:46 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Timely reporting, it only happened 13 years ago.]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/29/2008 3:55:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-29T03:55:46+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228370</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[sputum @ 3/28/2008 11:10:59 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<span class='spoiler'>I wouldn't have given it back.</span>]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/28/2008 11:10:59 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-28T23:10:59+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>228343</id><url>http://www.plime.com/law/l/56185/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[dollyllama @ 3/28/2008 10:01:07 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[He made close to $100 grand for nothing and he wants tips?  Feh!]]></content><score></score><crdate>3/28/2008 10:01:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-28T22:01:07+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>