{"id":90883,"date":"2026-06-18T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90883"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:08:48","slug":"man-cuts-off-his-foot-in-220000-insurance-scam-but-ends-up-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/man-cuts-off-his-foot-in-220000-insurance-scam-but-ends-up-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Man cuts off his foot in \u00a3220,000 insurance scam but ends up convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25WmNd.img?w=634&h=1055&m=6&x=294&y=149&s=106&d=106\" alt=\"University clerk Vanderlay dos Santos (pictured) was found guilty of defrauding insurance companies after he amputated his own foot in an attempt to receive compensation\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A university clerk has been sentenced after arranging for his own foot to be amputated during a fake robbery in a bid to claim \u00a3220,000 in insurance payouts.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/man-cuts-off-his-foot-in-220-000-insurance-scam-but-ends-up-convicted\/ar-AA25X8H4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a33b5023fd948ce9978b98cce06fe1c&ei=19\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A university clerk has been sentenced after arranging for his own foot to be amputated during a fake robbery in a bid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/amputee-for-insurance.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90885,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90883\/revisions\/90885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}