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Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She should have said - well we tried calling first but were on the phone for quite a while- you said our call was important to you and you were 'experiencing an unusually high volume of calls'...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

She just wanted to be a brazillionare

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

thats Rio for ya

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Anyone remember those two guys who took a dead family member to withdraw money from the post office? Can't believe she thought she would get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why was taking the corpse their first plan. It's seems this type of fraud would be a lot easier by just impersonating the deceased person. It not like the deceased would be able to sign anything or share recall any accounts numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The post office guys I think wanted the deceased's pension and they were a lot younger so I doubt that would have worked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This just happened in Ohio too: https://fox8.com/news/i-team/listen-woman-admits-on-jail-call-she-took-dead-man-to-bank-to-withdraw-cash/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Your honor I object.

She was only looking to defraud the bank of less than $4k USD.

Wheeling in her deceased uncle to a fucking bank branch is easily worth at least a $5k USD fraudulent loan.

I rest my my case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This video was truly bizarre

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It's really disturbing. I do not recommend watching the uncensored version.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Weekend at Chase Manhattan.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You need to be two people to pull that off, and the corpse must be wearing beach attire and shades. The shades are important. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

...and it has to be the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As far as i can tell the loan was for around 4.5 months average salary for Brazil. Its a windfall but not a "retire early" windfall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

thats extremely generous, more like a year. minimum wage is about $250/mo and id bet most people are making that or less.