Some Con Men Really Do Have The Gift Of The Gab,

in this case the man involved was allegedly Casey William Kelley,

it was all so simple, print up a cheque on your own home computer, walk into a Porsche dealership in Destin, Okaloosa County, Florida, USA, and present them with the cheque, convince them it was genuine and walk, or I should say drive away in a $140,000 Porsche 911, what could possibly go wrong? well not a lot as it happened, at first, the police report obtained by local media showed that the amateur conman didn’t stop at a Porsche 911. After seeing that his method worked, he went back home, printed another check for $61,521 and used it at a jeweler in Miramar Beach the next day. Only this time, the owner didn’t let him walk out with the three Rolex watches he had bought until he cashed the check, by the time the jeweler reported the check as fake, the Porsche dealership in Destin had figured that out as well, and Kelley had already been arrested for the first incident. He was taken into custody on Wednesday, July 28, and into the Walton County Jail on a charge of grand theft of a motor vehicle and a charge of fraud. Interestingly, the Florida conman claimed he didn’t understand what he had done wrong,

according to the arrest report, “Casey stated he didn’t know what the big deal was, and that since it was his account number on the check he printed out, it should be fine”, Casey William Kelley’s next court appearance is scheduled for September 22, now how about that for a smooth talker?

as an aside, I tried to make a link to the original story in the Palm Beach Post, but all I received was the above, sorry about that.