Man fakes death to get out of mobile phone contract

Still had to pay up

Man fakes death to get out of mobile phone contract. Phones, Mobile phone industry, Verizon, Photos 0

20 August 2007 6:21 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Apparently angered with dropped calls and a "string" of defective mobiles, American Corey Taylor was desperate to get out of his Verizon Wireless mobile phone contract.

When he discovered that he'd be forced to pay $175 as an early-release fee, he decided to resort to extreme measures and faked his own death.

With the reasoning of "What have I got to lose, besides a cellphone I despise?", he mocked up a fake death certificate, and got a friend to fax it to Verizon Wireless.

However, the company caught on to the scheme, and Taylor didn't get away with it: "In the end, I forked over the money".
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