May 5, 2008

Man cashes cheque for $360 billion

A man tries to cash a cheque in a Fort Worth, Texas bank for a mere $360 billion and is surprised when the bank ask him a few questions about it! He claims that the money is from the mother of his girlfriend who is financing him to start up a record company.

But later Charles Ray Fuller, 21 was arrested and accused of forgery. Simply because the cheque that he presented to the bank was not even made to him, so when the bank contacted their customer, she confirmed that she did not write a cheque for $360 billion.

It is totally amazing that even by today’s standards it is not going to be likely that someone is going to even have a spare $360 billion lying around in their bank account, let alone writing a cheque for it. Does that amount even fit onto a cheque?

Source [Dallas News]