[antonovka]

If you thought you could just use a bogus company front and cash the checks on your personal account with no records, well, you don't deserve much help.

They aren't checks. They're wire transfers. The mistake is understandable, and really -- it's not that big of a mistake. Apple hasn't paid anything out yet, the documentation can almost certainly be changed -- Apple simply needs to respond to his queries.

Why work so hard to blame the person who makes a simple mistake and gets stuck in an endless bureaucracy? The process is intimidating, poorly documented, and incredibly confusing. Apple provides very little assistance when things go wrong, and quite often, mistakes made in the web UI can not be rectified without going through human support -- who will, more often than not (from experience), simply ignore you.

[cakesy]

Yes, the process is poorly described, but it is not a simple mistake.

Why create a company at all? Why create a fake company, one that does not have a bank account associated with it? Why do so in a country you don't live in?

This all sounds very strange.

[rjurney]

Have you never heard of using a personal account 'Doing Business As'? Its not 'fake' in the sense you're thinking about, its done all the time.