After a few minutes, he found out her last name and said, "Why didn't you tell me you were
as ___?" Then instructed the teller to cash the check for whatever she wanted.
Made it easier for scammers were able to get away w/scams. They still can, but it's a lot harder.
I think that's why there were so many stories of imposters who ingratiated themselves into societies by pretending to be someone's kid, niece, cousin, etc.
Frank Abagnale (born 1948), who passed bad cheques as a fake pilot, doctor, and lawyer[5]
Gerald Barnbaum (born 1933), former pharmacist who posed as a doctor for over twenty years after stealing the identity of a licensed medical professional[6]
Cassie Chadwick (1857–1907), who pretended to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), anthropologist and spiritual writer posing as an apprentice to the nonexistent Don Juan Matus
Ravi Desai, a journalist who passed himself off as Robert Klinger, a fictional CEO of BMW's North American division, in a series of diary entries for Slate magazine[7]
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) Italian adventurer and self-styled magician
Belle Gibson (born 1991), an Australian alternative wellness advocate who falsely claimed to have survived multiple cancers without using conventional cancer treatments[8]
David Hampton (1964–2003), who pretended to be the son of Sidney Poitier
Joseph "Harry" Jelinek (1905–1986), who is alleged to have fraudulently sold the Karlstejn Castle to American industrialists.
Brian Kim (born 1975/1976), hedge fund manager, lived in Christodora House in Manhattan, falsified documents identifying himself as the president-secretary of its condo association, and then transferred $435,000 from the association's bank account to his own bank account.[9]
Sante Kimes at times impersonated an ambassador's wife or Elizabeth Taylor and was eventually convicted of murdering her landlady, wealthy socialite Irene Silverman, with the apparent plan to take Silverman's place.
Victor Lustig (1890–1947), "The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice."
Richard Allen Minsky (born 1944), who lured women into vulnerable situations by pretending to be people they knew, then lawyers representing them, and then raped them.[10]
Arthur Orton (1834–1898), also known as the Tichborne Claimant, who claimed to be the missing heir Sir Roger Tichborne
Paul Palaiologos Tagaris (c. 1320/40 – after 1394), Orthodox monk, claimed to be a member of the Palaiologos dynasty, pretended to be the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, later succeeding in being named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.
Frederick Emerson Peters (1885–1959), U.S. celebrity impersonator and writer of bad checks
Lobsang Rampa (1910–1981), who claimed to be a deceased Tibetan Lama possessing the body of Cyril Hoskins and wrote a number of books based on that premise
James Reavis (1843–1914), master forger who used his real name but created a complex, fictitious history that pointed to him as the rightful owner of much of Arizona
Christophe Rocancourt (born 1967), who pretended to be a member of the Rockefeller family
Anna Sorokin (born 1991), who pretended to be a wealthy German heiress before being convicted of grand larceny.
Michael Sabo (born 1930), who was known as a "Great Impostor" with over 100 professional aliases listed with the FBI
Leander Tomarkin (1895–1967), fake doctor who became the personal physician of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. Albert Einstein assumed the honorary presidency of one of his medical conferences in 1931.[11]
Wilhelm Voigt (1849–1922), who masqueraded as the "Captain of Köpenick"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impostors#Fraudsters