Many doctors are accused of having bad handwriting. But one who can’t spell his or her own name? That’s going to trigger a fraud alert. The Daily News reports that a spelling error on a New York welfare claim inspired authorities to double-check its validity. (See? Autocorrect does serve a purpose, after all.)
According to the report, a woman submitted a medical statement to the Genesee County Department of Social Services (DSS) that she claimed had been issued by a doctor, whose name was misspelled on the form. (Who knew it was so perilous to ignore autocorrect?)
Unfortunately for her, an examiner caught the error and a subsequent investigation led to the 32-year-old woman’s guilty plea to second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument. She was sentenced to four months of jail time followed by five years of probation. (Copy this sentence 5,000 times: I must not commit fraud.)
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