Unemployed son dressed as dead mum in ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ pension scam

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An Italian man schemed to disguise himself as his dead mother to claim on her pension.The man, an unemployed former nurse, dressed up in a 1970s blouse and pearl necklace replete with lipstick, before heading to the Registry Office in his town of Borgo Virgilio in northern Italy.He was attempting to renew the identity card of his mother, Graziella Dall'Oglio.The real Graziella died three years ago, and her son had been claiming on her pension the entire time, totalling up to the vast sum of nearly €53,000 ($94,000), according to Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

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00:00Little old lady, dressed in a skirt, wearing lipstick and a pearl necklace, off to collect

00:06her pension in a small northern Italian town.

00:10But staff, smell and impostor.

00:13The little old lady is in fact a man, pretending to be his mother.

00:19That's Graziella Dalloglio on the left.

00:22She died three years ago.

00:24On the right, her son, who dressed up as his mother and went on to pocket thousands before

00:29pension staff woke up to the ruse.

00:32A man dressing up as an old woman.

00:36Hello, Mrs Hillard I presume?

00:39No wonder they are calling it the Mrs Doubtfire Scandal.

00:44In the 1993 hit film, a team of make-up artists transformed Robin Williams.

00:52But our imposter was a dead giveaway.

00:57The local mayor saying, up close his neck was too thick and his wrinkles were strange.

01:03The skin on his hands did not seem to be that of an 85-year-old woman.

01:07The story took a grim turn when police found the mummified body of the man's mother hidden

01:14in the family house.

01:15As amateurish as it all seems.

01:18He still pocketed around $90,000 playing dress up before he was discovered.

01:25Mrs Doubtfire would no doubt be impressed.

01:31Mark Burrows, Nine News.

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