Insurance fraud: How the walking dead cash in
Old-style detective work remains the best method to catch body scammers
12 September 2024 - 05:00
For 23 years Robbie Smith was one of the so-called walking dead, living and breathing and always a step ahead of the law. Then a tip-off led Hawks investigators to Smith’s Knysna hideout and a life of two decades on the run came to an end.
The walking dead has nothing to do with vampires or zombies; it is a nickname used in the insurance industry for people who fake their deaths or unknowingly have been killed off by fraudsters...
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