Would-Be Record Mogul’s Attempt At A 360 Deal With Himself Falls Flat

How not to enter the exciting world of the music business: Steal a check from your girlfriend’s mother’s checkbook, write it out to yourself in the amount of $360 billion, then try to cash it at your local bank in an effort to get “seed capital” for your venture. Oh, and make sure that your pockets are loaded up with marijuana and guns! While the grand gesture made by Charles Ray Fuller earlier this week shows the sort of moxie that is required by those who want to be in the record business, a little bit of pre-scam research would have revealed that it’s pretty rare for checks written against personal accounts to go into the 10-zero range–so such an anomaly would of course set off the alarm bells in bank tellers’ minds. I guess figuring out details like that is why real moguls have interns. [Fort Worth Star-Telegram; HT Ned Raggett]