Woman arrested for attempting to use dead man to secure bank loan

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Woman arrested for attempting to use dead man to secure bank loan
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TL;DR

A woman in Brazil attempted to secure a loan at a bank by wheeling in a deceased man in a wheelchair and trying to get him to sign for it, but the man had been dead for hours. Security footage showed her attempting to move his hand to sign and speaking to him as if he were alive. Bank staff became suspicious and alerted the police, who arrested the woman on the spot and charged her with fraud.

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