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-> '''u/Kametai:''' Insurance adjuster here. I'm not a detective, but I do lots of fraud investigations. The ones that aren't fraudulent are sometimes really fricking weird. The winner for me hands down is the man who claimed he was terrorized by [[MoleMen mole people]]. I know, I know. Mole people sounds like something I would make up for fake internet points. We had a laugh about the adjuster potentially trying to pad their claims count because this man filed SIXTY claims in about seven months. For context the average is like one a year for most policies. After talking with this gentleman, I no longer had doubts.\\
My in-person interview was about two hours. I had more than enough in the first five minutes and was trying to leave for most of it, but he kept blocking the door or directing me the wrong way to keep the mole people off my scent. It was kind of sweet in a twisted way; he genuinely thought the mole people would come after me if I didn't follow his rules.\\
He directed me to park ye olde company car about a mile away on a concrete parking flat he had made. We couldn't walk on the dirt road there; the mole people constantly changed where it went. The claims he filed were all in similar veins. The mole people moved his car every night with magnets and damaged the suspension and the noise kept our insured awake. They'd steal his hubcaps and put them back before they thought he would notice, but he noticed and they were covered in scratches from being pulled through the dirt. They would use long thin sticks from underground to siphon gas or wiper fluid or oil, but never more than a few drops. And for every one of these things he would file a claim which would inevitably be well below his deductible.\\
We decided that there was no fraud, but a call to adult protective services was merited.\\
'''u/Roguecop:''' The Eastern German Statsi would use a similar tactic, psychological warfare actually, to unnerve a political "troublemaker". They would go into a person's house and make very subtle changes. Like hiding one shoe, or changing the time on a clock or alarm 8 minutes, removing some groceries, putting in others, increasing the temperature of a refrigerator, etc.
-->-- '''[[Website/{{Reddit}} r/AskReddit]]''', "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=ikM8wvfZklY Detectives, What are Some of the Creepiest Cases You Have Worked On]]?"
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'''Shawn:''' "That might be a helpful statement [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure if I knew what it meant.]]\\

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