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

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

Shock in Brazil after woman is arrested and charged with violating a corpse and attempted theft through 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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Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’

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

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

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

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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
- ...and it has to be the weekend.

Weekend at Chase Manhattan.

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.

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

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