Would you turn "friends" in if they were scamming the system. Medical benefits, disability, etc.
2006-07-13 07:51:37 · 29 answers · asked by little fairy lady 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
please do not answer this if you are still a child. Adults only.
2006-07-13 07:54:53 · update #1
they have no problem doing everyday things like everyone else, but "cant work". They are big time scammers, this is their profession. What makes me sick is the fact they throw "money" around like they are rich. Even their child said "we are rich", the children go without NOTHING, they have everything and more than the family needs. cars, trucks, boats, brand new house, campers, vacations. living the good life off of us who bust our asses for a living.
2006-07-13 07:58:39 · update #2
they use "friends" to their advantage, to get what they can get either for free or really cheap. I do care about them, as people, and i care about their children. I have brought it up, but they defend their "situation", giving excuses for what they do. By the way ladies, she goes into stores and buys dang near everything she wants. I have seen her spend $500 at a discount store on crap, while i am in the other line with my $150.00 budget for items.
2006-07-13 08:04:31 · update #3
HOW AM I GOING TO GO TO JAIL PEOPLE! I AM NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG!
2006-07-13 08:05:51 · update #4
by the way, if i was going to jail because i know of their situation, half this town would go too. no one wants to say anything because of the kids.
2006-07-13 08:09:26 · update #5
I'm shocked that you would even ask a moral question such as this. I am a tax-payer and I don't appreciate it when lazy folks have an entitlement attitude and think they are OWED something they are not.
YES -- Turn them in! It is your civil duty.
Social Security Fraud Hotline: Telephone: 1-800-269-0271 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Identity Theft Hotline: 1-877-IDTHEFT (1-877-438-4338).
Medicare or Medicaid fraud, contact the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General at 1-800-447-8477
2006-07-13 09:44:02 · answer #1 · answered by fourcolor4u2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you should turn them in and I don't see how you could go to jail. As for the kids well, they are not teaching them right either by handing them everything they are teaching them that this is a way of living and they will do the same thing. You need to stop this chain now before it continues on. Nobody has to know it was you that turned them in. You can do these things anonimously. If they were really your friends then you wouldn't be worried about it. But you said that they were only friends with people to get what they can out of it. That is not friends that is convenience.
2006-07-13 09:03:51 · answer #2 · answered by lynnzhere7777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't sound like a person with a bunch of mraols and responsibility. Those kinds of friends gets others in trouble. Besides what are you doing with a friend who collects money and doesn't use it as a means to support her family?
Look at it this way, you are a part of it. It's what the law describes as "Having knowledge of the crime makes you an accessory to the fact"
Tell your friend to stop or your FORCED to end your frienship with them (if your morals get in the way).
If she get's caught, don't think she'll use your name. And if you go to jail, women prisoners have a way of penatrating you like a man. Ad if your into that, it won't be the kind of sex your thinking. It would be more like "Your *ss is mine and I'll pass it around so I can get a decent carton of smokes".
Be smart.
2006-07-13 07:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by monkeymustard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Didn't you say they were friends ?? I can understand why you want to though. I hate people who drain the system. I know one person like this who just skates through life while we pay for it. Hold on, wait a minute, I'm getting angry again. Turn those sons of b*tches in.
2006-07-13 07:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by JustMe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be your business since it's coming from the taxes you pay. Turn them in.
In the UK I've heard that scammers cost the Department of Work and Pensions £7 million per DAY! Per day! Think of what could be done with that sort of money? For schools, for the NHS, for the police. That's £2,555,000,000 billion per YEAR.
2006-07-13 07:55:02 · answer #5 · answered by Cali Dude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because if they are scamming the system then they are screwing somebody else out of their benefits, etc. Just keep in mind it could be someone in your family that they are screwing over.
2006-07-13 07:55:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. Friendship comes before those types of things in every way.
If it bothers you, advise them it is unwise (once) and then let it be. They are the ones taking a chance.
2006-07-13 07:55:12 · answer #7 · answered by justwebbrowsing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it all depends on your reasoning. Have you known for a long time and waited until now because you are upset with them? Or did you just find out and feel that they shouldnt be doing what they are doing?
2006-07-13 07:56:41 · answer #8 · answered by Candycane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because ultimately it's you who pay for with your tax dollars. Plus they ruin it for people who really need those benefits.
2006-07-13 07:55:45 · answer #9 · answered by tatabegoofy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, tax payer end up paying for they scamming so i would becouse i dont want to pay for then to sit around and do nothing and get money.
2006-07-13 07:57:47 · answer #10 · answered by wolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋