Give Insurance Fraud Another Hand

We’ve done several stories on this topic, but it is still surprising when people are willing to go to such lengths for an insurance payout. What are we referring to? Oh, just the people that cut off their own hands for money. This time we take you to Spain. According to Live Insurance News, two men...

May 2nd, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

MI Man Buried Motorcycle for Fraud Money, Ordered to pay $25,000

If you’re going to bury your motorcycle for the insurance payout, you should make sure your wife doesn’t see you do it. Police say one Michigan man failed that test, and after threatening to bury her with the bike if she told, she did just that. According to MLive, Chad E. Dejongh, 40,...

January 9th, 2013 | 2, Insurance Fraud | Read More

FL Man Arrested For Allegedly “Fixing” Cars with Play-Doh

You can make so many things with Play-Doh: hair, desserts, people, houses, animals, and, of course, spaghetti. One thing you can’t do with Play-Doh is use it to fix cars. One Florida man is learning that the hard way. According to the Business Insider, Nicholas Johnson, 33, was arrested recently for...

January 7th, 2013 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Chainsaw Amputation Scam Finally Ends at Sentencing

You may recognize the name David Player if you have been keeping up with our blog stories. If not, then shame on you. But seriously, he’s the 58-year-old ringleader of the insurance scam that involved cutting off the hand of a mentally disabled man. You can read all about that scheme here. Player was...

December 20th, 2012 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Surveillance Video Contradicts IN Woman’s School Bus Injury Claim

In one of the funnier stories we’ve come across in a while, a Fort Wayne woman has claimed that she was injured by a school bus; and no, that is not the punch line, it’s at the end of the story. No skipping ahead though. According to The Journal Gazette, Shelley Lapsley, 42, was charged with Class...

November 8th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Fake Cat Earns WA Man 15 Days in Jail

An update on Yevgeniy Samsonov, 29, the man who claimed that his cat died in a car wreck; he pled guilty on October 8th to attempted first-degree theft. According to the Bellingham Herald, Superior Court Judge Linda Lee sentenced Samsonov to 15 days in jail plus 30 days of electronic home monitoring,...

October 10th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Washington Man Allegedly tried Dead Parrot Sketch before Failed Dead Cat Claim

In early July we brought you the story of 29-year-old Yevgeniy M. Samsonov, who was looking at charges of attempted theft and insurance fraud after he allegedly lied about the death of his cat; a cat that never even existed. Samsonov was accused of trying to swindle PEMCO Insurance out of $20,000 by...

October 8th, 2012 | 2, Insurance Fraud | Read More

Chainsaw Amputation Scam Ends with Guilty Plea

As if movies such as Saw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre aren’t enough, there’s also the story we brought you back in February about Gerald B. Hardin, the guy who cut off a mentally disabled man’s hand with a chainsaw in order to get the $671,000 insurance payout. At the time of that article we didn’t...

September 19th, 2012 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

WA Man Thought he Committed the “Purrfect” Crime

Warning: this article may be filled with clichés about cats. Officials let the cat out of the bag recently when they announced the arrest of a Washington man who was charged with insurance fraud and attempted theft (not as a cat burglar). He apparently used photos that he found on the Internet to file...

July 9th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

SC Man Charged with Cutting Off Friend’s Hand For Money

Back in December of 2011 we brought you the story of a Chinese man who cut off his own hand for the insurance money. And while we were hoping that story would be unique, here we are again writing about the same thing not even 3 months later. According to WYFF News, a South Carolina man is in jail because...

February 24th, 2012 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

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