Cheque through the post

lettucefire · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:34

crikey:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-are-they-famous-dan-macmillan-1169013.html

ROUGH 'N' TOUGH CREDENTIALS: Claims to hang out with ageing gangsters and dilapidated strippers in Soho. Flouts a fetish for the images of porn, heavy weaponry and recreational drugs. That's Da-a-a-n with an Estuary accent to you, mate.

ALSO KNOWN AS: Old Etonian Viscount Ovenden, future Earl Stockton, great grandson of Harold Macmillan. Heir to the Macmillan publishing fortune, currently estimated at pounds 300 million.

eddie101 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:35

Currently on the phone to Coutts Bank to see if they can inform him for me

Greebo · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:37

Send the money back or he will send the "boys" to collect.

Slade2 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:39

'The Viscount Macmillan' A.K.A Dan Macmillan

From Wikipedia,

`He is heir to a £200 million fortune`

i dont think he will miss 3.5k

mlbtheshow · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:40

Book royalties?

Ewaf · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:40

eddie101 said:
Currently on the phone to Coutts Bank to see if they can inform him for me

Let us know what they say! **** why does this never happen to me

mlbtheshow · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:41

Google your name, maybe its been used in a book he has published? And thus he is paying you for it or something.

eddie101 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:41

Have been requested to send the cheque back to the bank. Which I shall do

jmc007 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:42

Why back to the bank if he sent it to you?
The check is from a London bank which fits too.

nydryl · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:44

He's using you to launder money!

eddie101 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:45

jmc007 said:
Why back to the bank if he sent it to you?
The check is from a London bank which fits too.

So they can issue it back to their client. Don't think they will give details out of people worth £300m

Russinating · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:50

Why does this never happen to me?

Ewaf · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:50

eddie101 said:
Have been requested to send the cheque back to the bank. Which I shall do

Did they say what happened? How did they accidentally send you a cheque to your address with your name on?

Doohickey · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:52

Do you know this Dan Macmillan personally? How does he know you? (I imagine he must know you somehow in order to even have your name and address and to write a note like that.

eddie101 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:52

Ewaf said:
Did they say what happened? How did they accidentally send you a cheque to your address with your name on?

It wasnt from them directly, it was from Dan Macmillan himself. Suppose he might of used the post code finder on the post office website and used mine instead of the one for London.

eddie101 · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:53

Doohickey said:
Do you know this Dan Macmillan personally? How does he know you? (I imagine he must know you somehow in order to even have your name and address and to write a note like that.

Never heard of or even met him. I have put it down to one big coincidence

gillywibble · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:56

nydryl said:
He's using you to launder money!

That's such a fail it's funny

Vonhelmet · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:57

You pay the cheque in, the sender contacts you to say it was a mistake and they ask for the money back less £500 for your goodwill, you send it, the original cheque bounces, you are down £3,000, they are long gone, you get bummed by the bank. Fin.

lcg · 22 Jun 2011 at 12:58

Cuchulain said:
It appears the sender believes that the payment should have been sent sooner rather than the recipient being late.

I think this too.

They must be loaded if they have a Coutts bank account.

Edit: Indeed they are

jmc007 · 22 Jun 2011 at 13:02

The name Edward Summers seems quite popular; a fair few in London and Northhamptonshire.

Good choice sending it back, rather than an impromptu ring at the doorbell.