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10 Most unbelievable Insurance scams

He may not have won an award for one of the largest fraudsters, but he was one of the cruelest. This cardiologist made a living by performing invasive, painful, and dangerous heart surgery on perfectly healthy people. He paid recruiters to visit homeless shelters and public housing to find indigents, seniors, and drug addicts. These vulnerable people were paid cash to show up at his clinic to submit to a battery to tests, and finally, invasive heart procedures.

In fact, he performed 750 operations on healthy people, and 2 of his “patients” died. He worked at Chicago’s Edgewater Medical Center, and federal prosecutors did not believe he worked alone. All of these illegal, unnecessary, and dangerous procedures were performed to defraud health insurance companies and public health services of millions of dollars.

Charles Gavett did not get famous for the size of his insurance fraud, but for his audacity and bad taste. While most of the US grieved for the dead, Gavett claimed that his wife, Cindy, died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. However, she was really alive and safe in their home. They lived in a fairly small community, and their plans to collect $200,000 from their mortgage