...Not that I think anyone here actually would, you're all very very smart people, but I wanted to share a thing I happened across. I work in a public library, and yesterday somebody left a piece of paper on the copy machine, so I went and picked it up to throw it out. It was a printout of somebody's bank statement, only they had "doctored" it (by which I mean used scotch tape to affix new numbers over the deposit amounts) to make it look like their income was roughly twice what it actually was. My hypothesis is that this person is trying to buy a house or a car and want to qualify for a loan of some kind.
Putting aside the part where the doctoring job was terrible (I'm sure the scotch tape was visible on the copy, also the ORIGINAL TEXT was visible under the overlaid paper), and even putting aside the whole "falsifying loan documents is illegal" thing, this is such a dumb thing to do. Unless they have unreported income of some sort, which now that I think about it isn't totally out of the question in this neighborhood, they're just buying themselves a world of trouble when they end up with a loan with monthly payments they can't afford. The loan payments will eat their life. I just don't even see how it's worth the trouble.
Submitted April 26, 2017 at 01:30PM by unevolved_panda http://ift.tt/2ox5UxC
