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Misspelling Spoils Alleged Counterfeiting

Posted on: Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 06:00 CST

Misspelling Spoils Alleged Counterfeiting

source: Associated Press Strange News

HICKORY, N.C. - It's a case where spellcheck would have come in handy.

Police are looking for two men who tried to pass a $498 counterfeit payroll check bearing the name "Boryhill Furmiture" on Monday afternoon. The company's name is Broyhill Furniture.

The men took off after the clerk rejected the check because of the misspellings. Police did arrest two women who were seen following the men in a car.

Kathy Elaine Gillman, 39, and her daughter Amanda Kaye Gillman, 18, both of Ohio, were charged with aiding and abetting the obtaining of property by false pretense and possession of counterfeit checks.

Police found 42 bogus checks for $200 to $400 each inside the women's car, along with a software program used to print checks, pages torn from a phone book and a handgun. The checks purportedly were from businesses in Georgia, South Carolina and West Virginia.

Hickory Police Capt. Steve Wright said the checks' quality was impressive.

"There's a good possibility that if the name on the check had been spelled correctly, they would have gotten away with it," Wright said.

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