Receiving money not mine

I think they can ask for it back at anytime. No matter how long. It is their money afterall. I'd give them a complete year to go over their records. Not sure how often businesses do their accounts. Every 6 months? Or yearly?
 
Windle said:
If it's from a big faceless corp? Screw em, keep it :) They'd do the same to you if it was the other way around, i guarantee you.
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Ahh, the old "They've got plenty of money so it's ok to steal from them" attitude :rolleyes:

I doubt very much that any business would deliberately keep someone's money - they wouldn't be in business very long.

If you keep it you will be £330 better off but you will be a thief. If you give it back to them you won't have lost anything, but you will still be honest. The choice is your's :)

Stan :)
 
Invest it in stocks and shares with the intent to pay it back. If you lose it, youve personally lost nothing more, if you gain on it... pay back the money that wasnt yours and keep the rest from the investment.

Now tell me where your karma lays with this blurry grey area. :p
 
Hostile17 said:
I bet half the people saying return it would have second thoughts if they were in the thread starters shoes! :)
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For half a second maybe. But I returned £35 to a guy who'd lost it on the floor of the supermarket just before Christmas one year when I was broke.
I could have walked out with no-one being the wiser, but I saw him scanning the floor, engaged him in conversation and he convinced me that he was the one who'd lost it. So I gave it to him.
 
Treefrog said:
That's still theft, legally speaking. Taking it, with the intention of permanently depriving the lawful owner of it.
Same as a shoplifter throwing away his gains and saying "I haven't got it."
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Yeah I know ;) but if someone was going to keep it then its the nicest thing they could have done with it.

BUt in every event of me coming into contact with something that wasnt mine..........i've always handed it in cause i'm a goddie two shoes :D
 
MarkyMark said:
Yeah I know ;) but if someone was going to keep it then its the nicest thing they could have done with it.

BUt in every event of me coming into contact with something that wasnt mine..........i've always handed it in cause i'm a goodie two shoes. :D
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Hehe, true, but in that case, why keep it in the first place?

And fair play to you.
 
There are only a few instances where "theft" is actually allowed.

1 - Say your neighbour has gone on holiday and the mikeman still delivers fresh milk everyday. You take it off their doorstep and uses it, knowing that they would probably want you to have it because it would go off anyway and be wasted and give potential burglars a clue the house is empty.

2 - The Finders Keepers principle (up to a point). Find a pound coin on the street, sure, but finding a suitcase of £50 notes, definitely not since it is obviously someone had misplaces it and certainly want it back.

Theft comes down on Dishonesty mostly, less of the actual taking (because the way the case law have developed in the past), if the prosecution can show that you have been dishonestly obtained goods/money/profit then it will most probably be Theft.
 
Hostile17 said:
Sometimes good things just happen, you've got to take em while you can :)

End of the day its their mistake, not yours :)
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Yeah lolz omg lets brake the law lolz.

If it 'twas other way round, there'd be a thread deriding the business, wishing the management a painful journey unto hell!
 
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