Members in Chat:
BertieBot, Gildebot_LockHart | |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| | Harry Potter News Latest news and rumors about the Harry Potter world! | Vote for SS! 
04-16-2005, 09:17 AM
| | |  Harry Potter name used for fraud
Six individuals from the UK have been jailed for using the names of celebrities and the dead to fleece the public out of £1 million. One of the names used was Harry Potter. Quote:
The scam involved creating fictitious students to obtain cash from the Government's Individual Learning Account scheme which had to be scrapped following widespread fraudulent claims across the country.
The defendants exploited flaws in the scheme that meant anyone, even those without previous experience, could become a Learning Provider without being checked.
|
Source: Wizard News | |
04-16-2005, 09:25 AM
|
#2 (permalink)
|  Chizpurfle
Location: I don`t remember Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 682
|
That`s a common type of fraud! They aren`t very clever! Or just can`t run fast enough...... | 
|  | |
04-16-2005, 09:43 AM
|
#3 (permalink)
|
Location: Sydney, Australia Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 340
|
lol what idiots... | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 09:55 AM
|
#4 (permalink)
|
Location: 33' 53 S 151' 13 E aka Sydney, Australia Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 465
|
lol, that's funny. Stupid, but funny | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 10:04 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Jobberknoll
Location: The Netherlands Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 462
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Esmeralda Beck
First |
Not really smart are they? | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 11:28 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Grindylow
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow... Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 931
|  yeah
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Accio Firebolt Not really smart are they? | Indeed... | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 12:07 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| Scandinavian Mod Chimaera
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 7,758
|
Well they kinda got it coming didn't they? lol | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 01:20 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Ramora
Location: Mumbai Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 393
|
Stupid Gits!! | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 01:43 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Ghoul
Location: In Someone's HEART Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 599
Hogwarts RPG Name:
ginny
|
wat have they got on their minds????? | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 02:19 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
|
Location: Marietta, Georgia! Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 588
|
it's so funny that HP is that well known that it is used as a code name...that's spectacular! | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 02:24 PM
|
#11 (permalink)
|  I mod Cauldrons 0_oMy ImiKelpie
Location: =O I have a location Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 23,461
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Emmett Crosston
First Year |
Well, that was highly unoriginal! | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 02:36 PM
|
#12 (permalink)
| Formerly: Fizzing Leebee
Touzlee's Lee Leprechaun
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 19,348
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Flynn Docherty
First Year
Ministry RPG Name:
Crystal Zitsburg
Department of Mysteries |
okay............. are these people mentally ill or something or just incredibly idiotic? well they got what was coming to them, hope they have fun in jail, i hear you get to wear nice orange clothes  | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 02:39 PM
|
#13 (permalink)
|
Location: Sitting in my favorite armchair in Hufflepuff common room sipping tea with good friends. Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 895
|
who would cash a check for a harry potter and not ask a question? | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 02:42 PM
|
#14 (permalink)
| | Nogtail
Location: my computer, duh! Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 304
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Medea Firerose
Fifth |
Stupid idiots. Hope they like prison food! | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 03:03 PM
|
#15 (permalink)
|  TwitchyTomsLovelyLadyLethifold
Location: <.< Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 21,029
|
*snorts* That's amusing. | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 03:35 PM
|
#16 (permalink)
|
Location: In someone's heart... and the someone is at SS, and she knows it ! Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 466
|
They are the worst kind of idiots you could ever see folks ! That's one of the most common types of fraud that they're doing. Like Petrovich said, they've got to learn to run faster if they're gonna do such stupid things ! :LOL: | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 03:49 PM
|
#17 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Location: *****Dealing with Two Dollar Bill at his old hang outs***** Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 163
|
How could you be so incredibly stupid as to do domething like that i mean really! | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 03:53 PM
|
#18 (permalink)
| | |
Quote: |
Originally Posted by SASCH wat have they got on their minds????? | Money I assume lol | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 04:09 PM
|
#19 (permalink)
| | Mooncalf
Location: In my memory warehouse. I Duddits!!! Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 529
|
Stupid is as stupid does  | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 04:13 PM
|
#20 (permalink)
| | Augurey
Location: Typing on the computer at Hogwarts (Is that possible?) Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 819
|
Quote: |
Originally Posted by CrazyMoonyFan okay............. are these people mentally ill or something or just incredibly idiotic? well they got what was coming to them, hope they have fun in jail, i hear you get to wear nice orange clothes |
yes, the "stylish" orange jumper suits! hehehehehe you would think that people could get a TAD more original, but hey! It made the news! teehehe the moral: Don't mess with Mr. Potter  | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 05:02 PM
|
#21 (permalink)
|  Tick Tock
Location: Flourish and Blotts Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 78
|
people are so stupid so so stupid | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 05:05 PM
|
#22 (permalink)
|
Location: Shopping on High Street- HaHa I wish Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 89
|
i dont understand... who would believe they were harry potter? | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 06:54 PM
|
#23 (permalink)
|
Location: singing my heart out in California, USA Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 447
|
jeess... people these days are getting dumb. atleast use uncommen names. not HArry Potter. hahaha i dont feel bad for them one bit. | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 07:37 PM
|
#24 (permalink)
| Admires Ginny's Sanity DA Galleon Keeper Crup
Location: Limerick =) Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 2,300
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Mione Borthwick
Sixth Year |
lol...idiots... | |
| | |
04-16-2005, 07:50 PM
|
#25 (permalink)
|  Kaplinski Rival
NOT Strange or Evil
InspirationalBugbear
Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 12,219
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Marcella Riddle
Graduated |
There are actually several people in the UK named 'Harry Potter' so it's not totally unbelievable. | |
| | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On | | | All times are GMT. The time now is 05:04 AM. |
