A Brazilian woman is facing serious charges after trying to pull a "Weekend at Bernie's" with her dead uncle.
Reports say the woman attempted to use her deceased family member to get a bank loan of $3400 in his name.
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Security footage shows her pulling up to the bank in a cab, and she very clumsily places his corpse in a wheelchair and wheels him into the building.
Reports say the woman then forced her uncle's hand to sign the papers.
The teller said the man's colour was off; he wasn't saying anything, even though the niece kept speaking to him as if he were alive.
Cops were called in, and the man was identified as a 68-year-old man who'd died several hours earlier.
His niece says she didn't know he was dead.
She could face charges of fraud, embezzlement, and abuse of a corpse.
