Giving false names, payment references etc

AFKABartram

Any good tales of this? 

When I run a Sunday team, one of our supporters punched an opposing player as he was running down the wing. He told the ref his name was Mr Willy and I then had to go a series of league meetings to Mr Willy and the incident.

saw the below this morning…

ShootersHillGuru

Wow

Huskaris

If I know a friend's mortgage is up for renewal etc I'll always mark payments "bum sex" or "strippers" etc when sending them cash. 

ricky_otto

Christ I better be careful. I bank with starling and when I transfer money to Mrs Otto, the references I use are “bumming fees” and “vaginal intrusion”.

Fumbluff

ricky_otto said:

Christ I better be careful. I bank with starling and when I transfer money to Mrs Otto, the references I use are “bumming fees” and “vaginal intrusion payment”.

I think they know those references are optimistic, you’ll be fine

Wheresmeticket

ricky_otto said:

Christ I better be careful. I bank with starling and when I transfer money to Mrs Otto, the references I use are “bumming fees” and “vaginal intrusion”.

I think she gets so many of those they are probably used to it.

SouthWest_Addicks

Huskaris said:

If I know a friend's mortgage is up for renewal etc I'll always mark payments "bum sex" or "strippers" etc when sending them cash. 

100%. Services rendered or something like that whenever making a payment. 

MrOneLung

I had to transfer money to a mate to pay for a stag do - sent over 400 quid with the reference Big Steve's Anal Lube. He didn't even notice but unfortunately this was the week before he had to send his bank statements in for a mortgage application where he had to go through all his incoming and outgoing payments with the NatWest mortgage advisor !!

MrOneLung

Seriously though, I work for an international payments company and we have one client whose address is Cuba Industrial Estate (its up north somewhere)  and every single payment gets stopped by the US banks asking is this payment linked to Cuba, purpose of payment,  what is the reelvance of Cuba on this payment etc etc

Athletico Charlton

I used a false name once in my life when a mate and I managed to blag our way into the after party of the world championship snooker tournament in Sheffield. 

I spent some time chatting with Jimmy White before consuming a 3 course meal and a load of wine.

cafcfan

I started work at the Bank of England in 1970. I spent a year in the department that dealt with transfers of British Govt. Stocks. If a particular stock transfer was complicated, or even mildly suspect you would sign it off with a false name. M Poppins, D Duck and M Mouse were all popular. My usual sign off was G Raff.
The reason for this was that the BoE back then had a process called "regrets". Basically, if you were responsible for the Bank having to write more than 3 letters starting with the phrase "I regret to inform you..." you were out of a job. So you didn't want to be associated with getting something wrong.
On the plus side, you started "work" at 9:30, had, a coffee break,  a couple of hours for lunch in the Dandy Roll or Old Watling, a tea break (usually with two poached eggs on toast because you hadn't eaten at lunchtime) and if you could sign off 200 transfers in a couple of hours, you got home to Sidcup in time for Jackanory and other kids TV delights like the Clangers, Ivor The Engine, Mr Benn and The Magic Roundabout. Happy days!