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My "friend" needs advice, please

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  • soulsaver
    soulsaver Posts: 6,623 Forumite
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    RayWolfe wrote: »
    What about moral?
    ...... after all, you're the one with the morality monika!!!

    Morals Ray? Maybe I could argue that I learnt my moral standards from the example Banks & self serving pocket lining UK governments set ...
    But I'm not sugesting keeping it - just a pragmatic approach - wait & see what develops.
  • RayWolfe
    RayWolfe Posts: 3,045 Forumite
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    soulsaver wrote: »
    Morals Ray? Maybe I could argue that I learnt my moral standards from the example Banks & self serving pocket lining UK governments set ...
    Oh dear!
    Can't add to that.
  • withnell
    withnell Posts: 1,629 Forumite
    I disagree. Sticking with your simile, it's more like a shopkeeper delivering two tellies to your house and you signing for both deliveries - sooner or later it will be noticed and you'll be asked to return one, but I don't think the recipient has done anything wrong unless they colluded with either the shopkeeper or the delivery driver.

    But you should return the 2nd TV as soon as you realised you had been sent 2.
  • opinions4u wrote: »
    If you misappropriate any of this money, you will almost certainly be prosecuted.
    I'd say an 18 month sentence would be a fairly likely outcome.

    The sentence would be suspended but not the wrongdoer.
    ...............................I have put my clock back....... Kcolc ym
  • greenface
    greenface Posts: 4,871 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Heres one
    If i wrote a cheque for say £5,000 to Yorkshire Bank and put it into a envelope addressed to my yorkshire bank by me. Licked a stamp and popped it off. What would happen ??:confused:
    would they cash it :confused: i honestly dont know
    or say i said Joe. bloggs ?? yorkshire bank manager

    Now what about if it was deposited and i went back next month and said never meant to do that hypothetical i know but what if that was the case
    :cool: hard as nails on the internet . wimp in the real world :cool:
  • opinions4u
    opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite
    The sentence would be suspended but not the wrongdoer.
    As I said in post 22:
    The partner of a former employee of mine did much the same for a similar amount. 18 months sentence. Released after 9 months and hasn't worked since.

    Courts don't suspend sentence for £20k thefts. Even in Britain.
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