Dead people do not need cars, and they also have trouble making the payments. That’s probably why one woman’s credit score plummeted to zero when a lender accidentally put her down as dead. It was due to human error, but she’ll need to wait 30 days to move on with her new car purchase because someone at Acura Financial Services picked the wrong thing in a drop-down menu. [More]
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USPS Apologizes For Declaring Living, Breathing Man “Deceased”
By 10.21.14
Every parent dreads the possibility of outliving their children. So imagine the shock when one mom found out via the U.S. Postal Service that her son had died. Now think about how the not-at-all-deceased felt when he learned that he’d been declared dead by the post office. [More]
Bank Of America Doesn't Seem To Care That 'Dead' Customer Is Actually Alive
By 2.9.12
We thought the whole zombie fad was over, but don’t tell that to the folks at Bank of America who seem to be having some problems with deciding whether or not a customer is alive or dead. [More]
Social Security Responsible For Creating 14,000 ZombiesEvery Year
By 8.17.11 — Updated: 10.17.13
Every day in this country, more than 38 living, breathing Americans join the ranks of the living dead after their names somehow end up on the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. [More]
Chase Regrets To Inform You, And The Credit Bureaus, That You Are Dead
By 7.12.11
It was so thoughtful of Chase to send a letter of condolence to the family of a recently deceased customer in Florida. Or at least it would have been had the woman actually been dead. [More]
Hospital Says "Grandma's Dead," Grandma Disagrees With Diagnosis
By 3.1.10
Imagine the scene: Your beloved grandmother has been hospitalized for a respiratory illness. And then comes the bad news — A nurse at the hospital calls to say your grandmother has passed away. You go to her room to gather her personal items, and that’s when your dead grandmother wakes up. [More]
