Woman faked her own death to collect $800k in life insuranceBEVAN READ/STUFF Mary-Rose Ponce Calderon collected $800,000 in life insurance after forging and altering documents. A Rotorua woman faked her own death, posing as another person to claim she was killed by a stray hockey ball, to collect $800,000 in life insurance. The offending began in April 2015, when Calderon successfully took out an $800,000 life insurance policy online with the company Asteron Life, using her maiden name, Mary-Rose Kereopa. But her second and third life insurance claims were flagged as suspicious soon after the fraudulent documents had been sent. When police confronted her with the allegations, Calderon told them she needed money and was "addicted to money", Judge Collins said.

Source: Stuff August 28, 2017 05:15 UTC