A great scam story. Enjoy
An enterprising gentleman in The Republic of Ireland ran an advert in the classified ads of a magazine, reading “Giant 12″ Dildos - Only £5″ then stating a post box address. The money came flooding in. Having no such devices, and no intention of getting any, he wrote a refund cheque for each customer (and this is the clever bit) with the words “Giant 12″ Dildo Refund” stamped across them in very large letters. None of the refund cheques were ever cashed.
I understand that a variation of this now urban legend appeared in Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, but that doesn’t make it any less genius