WE have probably all tried to take our insurance companies for a bit of a ride over inflated claims.
But some customers just go a little over the top. Home and Overseas has come up with a list of its most outrageous dodgy claims. By far the most ludicrous was one for a lost watch which marked its value up by a thousand times.
The man reckoned his ú2,750 Rolex went missing and submitted a claim for a new one. Foolishly he did not know all Rolex’s are registered and, even more stupidly, sent in photos of his lost watch.
Close inspection revealed the most the insurance firm would have to pay out was ú2.99 for a Singapore-made market trinket.
Another claimant learned the hard way by treating an ex-girlfriend badly. The Aussie lifeguard claimed seven times for lost top-of-the-range ú1,000 surfboards, and even managed to get hold of fake receipts through a shop contact. However, his former lover grassed him up to the insurers to leave him in deep water.
Finally, a Portsmouth woman who claimed for her lost ú3,500 diamond solitaire engagement ring failed to see that photos she sent in showed a date of a week after she was supposed to have lost the ring.