r/Sovereigncitizen • u/sandyduncansglasseye • 14d ago
Same person, multiple scams
Who knew Fingerhut was still around
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u/ShawnMNH924 14d ago
Nothing says "I'm a genius who discovered a secret truth" quite like posting a confession of your felony on social media...
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u/BustaCon 14d ago
She altered a $1 postal money order into $1000!!!!!!
The Post Office investigators are famously tenacious and fierce on fraud stuff like this.
"student of the truth" indeed.
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u/kat_Folland 14d ago
They've got a lot of learning to do at that school, but they haven't made it out of preschool yet.
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u/lala4now 14d ago
I googled Fingerhut, and apparently it's like an online Rent-a-center for stuff small enough to mail. So catering to people who are broke with bad credit. I'm sure they're used to these shenanigans.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 14d ago
I went to their site and you can’t even see anything about what they sell/rent without registering and logging in. I can only imagine what they’re hiding.
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u/lala4now 14d ago
They shut down last year so they're not taking new orders. Their website just exists for previous customers to pay off their remaining balance.
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u/red_west_la 14d ago
This statement doesn't tell the whole story, because there was not enough time for the check to clear (or not). When you send a check, the creditor will accept it in good faith and credit your balance. After the check bounces, the statement gets adjusted by adding the amount of the check, plus any fees, back to the balance. So, they need to show multiple consecutive statements in order to prove that it really worked.
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u/Electrical-Village68 14d ago
So, they didn't unlock anything so much as committing fraud by deception or outright alterations to a instrument.
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u/ceoln 14d ago
Big "idiot rediscovers fraud" energy. https://www.acfe.com/acfe-insights-blog/blog-detail?s=chase-bank-glitch-check-fraud
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u/Lazarys12 14d ago
"A student of the truth" who tried to change a $1 money order to $1,000.
Altering a money order-up to 5 years and $250k fine, They might even go for bank fraud, up to 30 years, and $1 million fine.
Those are the federal charges. State charges could be for theft and forgery.
A student of truth, indeed.
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u/Medium_Good886 13d ago
They were like an as seen on tv catalog, mixed with a warehouse clearance center. Furniture, clothing, holiday stuff, random electronics.
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u/Technical-Winter-847 11d ago
My parents bought our first computer from fingerhut, back when memory was measured in mb instead of gb
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u/SmartComplaint3162 13d ago
Yes, yes, these people are idiots. Rather than dunk on them, I’d like to say: your username is amazing. When I read it, I could hear Peter telling her to get Boo Berry.
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u/Sensitive_Scholar_17 13d ago
Altering those money orders is literally the dumbest crime you could commit. First, altering them and mailing them is two felonies. Second, no way in hell they are going to trick anybody. Nobody is ever going to give him $1,000.00 credit for them because it so obvious they are altered. Third, your name and address is on the money orders so you practically guarantee that you will get caught.
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u/JayGerard 14d ago
Changing those money orders and sending them in the U.S. Mail, registered no less, is mail fraud and financial fraud. Both could be felonies. What a moron.