‘The Office’ creator, Ricky Gervais a target of fraud

The man behind NBC’s hugely popular sit-com, ‘The Office’ has now revealed he was the focus of a scam that would leave even Dunder Mifflin’s most incompetent drones on the floor in hysterics.

Ricky Gervais, who created the BBC’s original ‘Office’ back in 2001, told the UK’s Daily Mail that fraudsters lifted $330,000 from his personal account, then used it to order gold bullion. But their devious plans came unglued when they arrived at a bank and used a badly faked passport as ID to collect their rewards.
“The policeman told me these type of crooks normally get a passport from either a dead man or steal one and replace it with your details and picture,” Gervais told the scribes. “Then he showed me the passport.”
Rick, 48, says the crooks had simply cut his head off a DVD box and glued it in place. Once he saw the result, the next ten minutes was spent in unfettered laughter with the attending detective;
“Can you imagine what was in charge of getting the photo?” Rick asks, with a grin. “Dave, you’re doing this thing; Julie, you’re on the inside at the bank; Bert, can you get a picture?…Why are you going to Wal Mart??”
The intellectually untroubled robbers were easily captured, but despite their sick plot to remove all his cash Rick didn’t attend the court to see these incompetents jailed. The millionaire star got his money returned and is now moving on with his life…