A chubby teenage boy tried to work this one on me, a couple of years back in the Honor Oak area. The crumpled sponsorship form that he presented had the blurry appearance of a second-generation photocopy, and sections of it seemed to have been crudely cut-and-pasted - that's literally, with scissors, rather than in Photoshop! There were spelling mistakes throughout. As a forgery, it was less than sophisticated.

I declined, but noted the address of the Camberwell primary school on the sponsorship form. When I phoned them, they had no knowledge of the race event. Inevitably.

I wonder how long people have been trying this scam in the area? Or even whether it's the same form being copied and adapted! Can anyone come up with an earlier example?