05-28-2008, 04:28 PM
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Man Steals $50,000 From Banks a la Superman III, Office Space
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...legedly-b.html
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Michael Largent, of Plumas Lake, California, allegedly exploited a loophole in a common procedure both companies follow when a customer links his brokerage account to a bank account for the first time. To verify that the account number and routing information is correct, the brokerages automatically send small "micro-deposits" of between two cents to one dollar to the account, and ask the customer to verify that they've received it.
Largent allegedly used an automated script to open 58,000 online brokerage accounts, linking each of them to a handful of online bank accounts, and accumulating thousands of dollars in micro-deposits.
Largent's script allegedly used fake names, addresses and Social Security numbers for the brokerage accounts. Largent allegedly favored cartoon characters for the names, including Johnny Blaze, King of the Hill patriarch Hank Hill, and Rusty Shackelford. That last name is doubly-fake -- it's the alias commonly used by the paranoid exterminator Dale Gribble on King of the Hill.
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Get all your Office Space quotes out of your system. Also, gotta give the guy props for sneaking Rusty Shackelford in there.
Last edited by fredr123; 05-28-2008 at 04:36 PM.
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05-28-2008, 04:29 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Actually...
A la Superman III (Even as per Office Space).
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05-28-2008, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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He should have use the name Samir Nagheena... Nagheenag... Not gonna work here any more!!
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05-28-2008, 04:39 PM
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Voted for Kodos
Join Date: Mar 2007
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your name is Michael Bolton?
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05-28-2008, 04:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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You know he wasn't even stealing pennies, he was stealing fractions of pennies. It's just like taking a penny out of the jar at the store, only the jar is much bigger, and he did it a couple million times.
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05-28-2008, 04:42 PM
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Voted for Kodos
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: in the laundry brig
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I dont want to go to any prison!
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05-28-2008, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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We need to see a vid game where Superman has to fly in and rescue Jennifer Aniston's flare on Atari.
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05-28-2008, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary
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I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.
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05-28-2008, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Well, I could just burn the place down.....
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05-28-2008, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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What would you say...you do here?
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05-28-2008, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLZZZ!!!!!
I love the Rusty Shackelford alias....classic!
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05-28-2008, 07:11 PM
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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I wonder if when the guy was caught if someone asked him if he had a case of the Mondays?
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05-28-2008, 07:58 PM
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I've often wondered if a person/company can add 0.5 cents as a charge of some kind, it would take a while for people to notice that one.
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