Man fakes death to get out of mobile phone contract

Still had to pay up

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NEWS: 20 August 2007 6:21 GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott Apparently angered with dropped calls and a "string" of defective mobiles, American Corey Taylor was desperate to get out of his Verizon Wireless mobile phone contract. When he discovered that he'd be forced to pay $175 as an early-release fee, he decided to resort to extreme measures and faked his own death. With the reasoning of "What have I got to lose, besides a cellphone I despise?", he mocked up a fake death certificate, and got a friend to fax it to Verizon Wireless. However, the company caught on to the scheme, and Taylor didn't get away with it: "In the end, I forked over the money".

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