Florida man nets erroneous $980,000 IRS refund, buys Lexus, gets busted

[Samori Toure]

Not sure why peeps think they can get over on the IRS and the FBI, has never happened, they eventually catch you. You have to be a graduate levels of stupid to do what he did and thought no one would catch it.......

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Freelancers’ finances tend to raise red flags with the Internal Revenue Service at tax time. But a Florida man who somehow managed to snag a $980,000 tax refund while classifying himself as freelance got more than an audit – though he could also get props for moxie.

Ramon Christopher Blanchett, 29, of Tampa eked out a hair under $18,500 in earnings for 2016 but inexplicably was credited with $1 million in withholding.

In February 2017 Blanchett did his own taxes, the Tampa Bay Times reported, filing electronically and listing his occupation as “freelancer.” He submitted several W-2 forms, one showing he earned $17,098 with $1 million of federal income tax withheld. The IRS duly issued the $980,000 refund, which Blanchett deposited at Sun Trust.

Sun Trust smelled fraud and froze the accounts, sending Blanchett a check. He opened a new account elsewhere, “falsely representing that the funds were from the estate of his deceased father,” the IRS states in a forfeiture complaint it filed in U.S. District Court in Tampa, and reported on by the Tampa Bay Times.

The feds finally caught up with him, but not before he’d opened several accounts by dividing the money up, and using $49,117 of it to buy a Lexus RC350.

That’s when the IRS confiscated the Lexus and the $919,251 that he had left. The IRS is still after Blanchett for the remaining $809, the amount of auto insurance he was refunded after losing the car to the feds.

Despite all this, Blanchett has not been charged, the Tampa Bay Times noted, though fraud charges could be forthcoming.

 

[Breh13]

Lmao.

People just see the money and all sense goes.

IRS, Gov or banks making mistakes? Don’t use the money. Unless somehow you can get away with it, but average joes don’t have that capability.

 

[thelonious21]

The IRS is going to confiscate that earned interest too



When it involves the IRS just give it back immediately

BIG FACTS!!!

 

[Neuromancer]

Florida man.

 

[LurkMoar]

Just dumb




I would have given that money back....QUICK!!

ITS A TRAP!!!

Of all the government entities to fukk with





Uncle Sam is about his paper brehs

 

[LurkMoar]

wrong :jayfdup:

scientology made them fall back like some bytches

Nah they paid em off breh aint no way



gotta be some billionaires greasing some pockets to keep their tax haven.

 

[Lifejennings]

You don't play with the IRS. They audited my ass for a much smaller amount. People claiming kids they never even met, and they got me.

 

[DUCKED_OFF]

Always Florida. There was a woman down there advertising irs fraud on Facebook. She had been doing it for like 3 yrs. they got her ass locked up in the feds now.

She didn't write that post

The courts proved that somebody else got her password and wrote that

 

[Knowledge]

That runway would’ve looked like this

Who said anything about flying. I'm walking my ass across the Mexican border then flying out of mexico to asia

 

[Jalether]

Those b*stards only go after working and middle class. plutocrats are allowed to evade taxes and exploit the loopholes in the system as much as they want.

 

[Noriega]

What a dummy, a Lexus is really a Toyota

It’ll last longer than any other brand of car out right now

 

[Charlie Hustle]

It’ll last longer than any other brand of car out right now

 

[Mr swag]

I’m guessing if you didn’t this with 5k, you can get away with it

 

[ÆTHER]

Guy stays on code

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Oh yes, the self-proclaimed "Queen of IRS Tax Fraud" I think she was in Tampa too

She was doing what?