Yes, terrific story. It's a shame that the junk mailer didn't have enough money to cover the cheque, because then there would be no moral dilemma as far as I'm concerned. After all the cheque was sent entirely unsolicited, and if it's close enough to the real thing to be actually used then the junk mailers deserved all they got.

Not that I have any sympathy for banks, you understand, they're all greedy bloodsuckers the world over, but they were an innocent 3rd party to a certain extent.It does leave me wondering, though, what would have happened if the bank hadn't been taken over - I would have thought that the bad publicity would have ended up costing far more than $95,000. I know I wouldn't do business with a bank that was not only pretty incompetent but treated their customer in such a shabby fashion.