Midland Bank

A fraudster was caught out after he tried to cash a cheque for a bank which folded nine years ago. Jonathan Hambly wandered into his local branch of Cashmakers to cash a £400 Midland Bank cheque - even though the bank closed in 1999 and was taken over by HSBC. The 25-year-old claimed that the dud - adorned with the bank's famous Golden Griffin motif - was a deposit refunded to him by his former landlord.
But the cashier told him: "Midland Bank doesn't exist."