"Students' Gruesome Insurance Scam: Amputations and Deceptive Payouts"
TL;DR
A Taiwanese university student, persuaded by a friend to have his legs amputated in a $1.3 million insurance scam, has been arrested for fraud. The friend, who suffered cryptocurrency losses, tricked the student into signing a note obligating him to pay $800,000. After faking frostbite injuries, the student received only $7,200 from an insurer, which will now be seized. Insurance fraud rates are reportedly rising post-pandemic, with opportunistic fraud cases surging 61% in the UK.
- Student persuaded by friend to amputate legs for $1.3M insurance scam Business Insider
- A student persuaded by his friend to get his legs amputated for a $1.3 million insurance scam wound up getting only $7,200 that he now has to return: prosecutors Yahoo! Voices
- Taipei man freezes off legs with dry ice for NT$41 million insurance payout Taiwan News
- Insurance scammer who wanted $1.3M claim caused his own amputations with dry ice: police New York Post
- 'Insurance fraudster' has both legs amputated 'after immersing them in dry ice for ten hours in plan to claim Daily Mail
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