Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/brazil-woman-corpse-bank-fraud

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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espentan@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

69420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

...and it has to be the weekend.

saltnotsugar@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y

Weekend at Chase Manhattan.

circuscritic@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y

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.

Kelly@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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.

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Put the comma in, otherwise it's three dollars and a quarter if you use the .

Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 2y

Here is Brazil it's the other way around, he must mixed it up. Here it would be R$3.250,00

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

ShepherdPie@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

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

Bunnylux@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This video was truly bizarre

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y

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

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
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Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

She just wanted to be a brazillionare