Can someone take out a life insurance policy on you without you knowing?

Posted in Life Insurance Rules over 4 years ago, 69 replies

Does a life insurance company legally have to tell someone if a policy has been taken out on them? In other words, could your husband take out a life insurance policy on you without you even being informed by the insurance company?

Is there a place where someone can search to find out if a policy has been taken out in their name?
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Most life insurance companies require a insurance exam and that would require the insureds consent. The Medical Information Bureau
would have a file on anyone who applied for life insurance. This might be a good source to see if an application had been submitted.
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Thanks for the information.if there are any policy cancel them if I'm not paying on it.
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get a life dickhead, you are an idiot
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Tyson Bowman YOU are the IDIOT.. go back to playing with yourself you little pervert.
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Well, my God-daughter's brother doesn't have his own dwelling, comes to stay with her from time to time, and his NO health or life insurance, so why can't she take out insurance on him in case something happens to him??

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My grandmother is a victim of Idenity theft she knows she has had a life insurance plan in which my grandfather took out on him and her years b4 his death.. We called about 3 months ago to have benificiar forms to be sent to us they told us that the insurance was for 150,000 well we called them about 3 weeks ago they have. Ot recieved ne of the forms and are now telling us they only have a 20,000 dollar policy. Is there ne way of finding out where the insurance went? And I she has ne more in her name her memory isn't the best
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Ok thanks. I work in a hospital as a nurse and will see if someone there has the contact info to that bureau.
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hello lisa, did you ever get a contact info number that would get information on wether, or not anyone has taken out an insurance policy on you. if you can find out please let everyone know how you found this information. Preventative measure to that would be to change your name, and birthdate to the policy of your choosing +your social security number would have to be changed before your death that. I would think might void all other possibilities.Alternative would be to move to a foreighn country," and do all of that" people might be better off doing just that.
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i keep finding my address associated with a family member who has had insurance on my father and he died under suspicious circumstances does anyone know how I can find out if there is a policy taken out on my by him?
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LISA: I would follow up with the people on the documentation where you found your name. Seems suspicious to me too...
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I am truly sorry for everyone's concerns but can't you people learn to put together a little inquiry without all the spelling errors? I thought all of us "dumb people" lived in the south!
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I am a Chartered Life Underwriter. I don't know everything there is to know about insurance, but I've never heard of anyone being able to take out life insurance on someone else without them knowing it.
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You do not know some families. My exhusbands family lived on insurance policies forged his name for everything even flowers I had to pay, and my sister is making a living sueing people she works a few months for. Sad to say you the world is full of this kind of thing.
If you would like to research just one name see what Elizabeth Norma Payne had as to life insurance and she signed with dementia many insurance policies for anyone.
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I have to agree with the person on Feb 2010, you do not know most families. My grandmother for example took out two life insurance policies on her now deceassed children. They were killed young. She is not a very likeable/ nice old lady. This evening I just found out she has a policy out on me. I am not happy about that at ALL! When I asked her to remove my name from her "hit list" she refused and said she would put more money on it! Also, she was very irate that my mother told me, and said she should have keep her mouth shut.
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It happened to me on a couple of occasions.
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I think I may be related Feb 6,2010 and April 24,2010. I have cousins and aunts who have policies on other family members without their knowledge. my father and brother to name a few. I always wondered how they were able to take out policies without my father and brother's knowledge. until I started seeing ads for life insurance with no physical necessary then I guess all you need is a little personal information, fill out the forms name themselves as beneficiaries, done deal.

There should be law against it.
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Voluntary benefit companies allow an employee to take out term insurance on spouse without spouses signature up to a certain death benefit, usually no more than $50000 coverage
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Then i would like to know why Companies can take out policies
on their employees? That is crazy... they can do it and we can't get one on them?
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my child great gmother took out a policy. Afterwards i was told about it and she said her grandson (my childs father) and I were the benificiaries,she dosen't have any of my info,so that's impossible and I would rather my child benifit if her father passes rather than him if she does ,they are very about $ .I do realize she did it so my child could borrow yrs from now but she's 4 and the policy holder is really old ,who will pay for the policy if the great gmother passes,as for if something happened to her father my child could recieve the $ @ 18 instead of him getting $ for her if god forbid something happened I never authorized anything and don't approve of this policy and want it cancelled any help would be great.
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I'm a Human Resources Director and our employees may purchase Group Life Insurance for their spouses and/or children without their knowledge; this would not require physicals nor disclosure…
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Thanks for the info. One question: what is the max benefit on the spouse that he can get, with out the spouses consent or knowledge?
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can i take out a life insurance policy on my mother without her knowledge? she does not have a will or life insurance and refuses to get one and i dont want to get stuck with burial costs. can i do this without her signing anything?
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mmm what about this?

corporate-owned life insurance policies or COLIs

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/666837/posts

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I once took out a loan from a bank and after the loan was paid off I found out the bank had taken out a life insurance policy on me to cover the loan. I don't remember giving them the OK for this. I also know an employer can take a life insurance policy out on any worker, and I believe this is without their knowledge. The thing that bothers me is can BP take out a policy on the fishing boat contractors in the gulf without them knowing and collect if they commit suicide. I know this sounds sick but I would not be supprised to findout it is true.

We had a local business man who had his own life insurance policy on himself which included suicide coverage. He was scamming his customers and stealing millions from his own company for years, when it finally caught up with him, he killed himself leaving a million to his family.

His family fought with the customers, saying they were not at fault for the scamming, and managed to keep most of the money. The world is full of people who use the system to their advantage no matter how it hurts others.
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I know Walmart takes out life insurance policies on their biggest pay out employees, young female employees. it is very disgusting. saw it in a Michael Moore film, "Capitalism a Love Story" very eye opening film every american should see it.
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How is possible that this taking policies out on people without their consent is allowed? THis is madness, disgusting,.... I have just learned about corperate policies on "rank and file" employees without their consent... I am amazed at such corruption! And then I discover that people are doing this individally as well.
Beyond belief! Ghousish , actaully...
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you are wrong, dickhead
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thanks, I will check the information you gave on where to check to find out if someone has taken out a life insurance policy on me.
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Type your reply here. Where can you find out if some one to out a policy or has on ???
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Any info on how or where to look to see if policy has been taken out on someone? I would be very interested to find out! Thank you for any help you can give.
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I just found out that my exhusband, (we have been divorced for 17) , has a life insurance policy on me without my knowledge. what can I do about this?
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One key element everyone is missing. IF you had a vested relationship (spouse, children, parents) then you CAN take out a policy as an OWNER on another person - and it is UPTO the insurance company as to if they require a physical. NOT all companies require the insureds permission, as long as that relationship is proven. The owner is the only one that can make changes to the policy - including beneficeries. AND Divorce, estrangement, etc is not reason for cancellation of a policy that was in place when the relationship existed.
Im a licensed agent. MOST people are not vendictive about it but in the event of death, there are also stipulations for payout. Suspicous death, suicide w/in 2 yrs, death from a pre-existing (disclosed or not) can "kill" the policy...and if so, some policies will refund paid premiums (after any written pentalty is subtracted).
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my father took lie ince polceyes out with brothers names on them
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I'm getting divorce with my husband and he refuses to take me off the life insurance. couple of days ago he said "I wish you die". How am i suppose to live with that. We have 6 y.o. - i'm so worried. When I called his insure. company they said that couldn't change anything since he's the owner of the police. And we are in United States of America - I don't get it. What about our rights, freedom!!!
something has to be done about it. Let's form a coalition or something.
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Hi,

My sister is in the same situation that you described. What happened with your circumstances? Were you able to get your name removed? If so, how?

I know that it has been a couple of years but I just saw this.

John
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I'm sorry but I appreciate the fact that I can take out a policy on someone. My dbag husband who I thought I had divorced when I signed all the papers he sent me never filed the divorce. He has a ton of debt attached to my name, if he dies I assume any debt he has acquired on his own, I haven't seen him in almost two years!! I think it's great that if he eats it not only will I no longer be married to him( I have neither the time nor money to go through cvi divorce courts + I found out I can get finaid for school because I'm "legally" married which I didn't get my first semester when I thought I was divorced) but I'll be debt free. It's the only nice thing he could do for me now.
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I am reading this for the first time so excuse the late pose. I am in serious trouble. I have been disabled for 11 years after I was attacked. I am confined to bed most of the time. It is my spine. And it can't be treated except by another operation-maybe. I can barely walk from the bedroom to the kitchen and my husband constantly tells me he signed no contract to take care of me. I never eat because he only buys what he likes. He's tossed all my things from three rooms into boxes and stacked them in the living room and two more rooms with these and said " it's your shit, go through it". The I hope you die, why don't you kill yourself, I hope you starve to death. I'm not your slave. You're a lazy piece of//////.
I can't divorce him, all I have are disability benefits and I already pay all medical bills and RX plus ANYTHING personal even if it is a food I ask for or for my shower to be fixed so I can bathe.
The topper was when he refused to sign LI policy with me as beneficiary and I would pay the premiums. He refused, saying he would make sure I never benefitted from his death in any way and he had made sure all his accounts were locked up tight so that the house would be foreclosed on and I'd be on the streets pushing a cart. And that's the nice part.

Every piece of furniture in here is either a family heirloom or furniture, bedding, linens, china, all my own clothes and most of his. They all belong to me personally. I have been quietly filling boxes with my prized possessions for and future estate sale to be held outside the house. I have one child who wants nothing and no other family and his is certainly not getting any of it. It is the only way I can think of to raise money and stash it away so I can someday get away from him but with my severe disability it is so hard especially when someone is purposely throwing out or taking your things to the attic or sticking them in a garage - always my things. So, should I die on the streets? Or should I be protected from a man who has been verbally and physically abusing me for years and laughs at my inability to do things?
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Its just business , there are many business practices that seem wrong but if some one feels theres some evil doings Ild leave a will for no cremation and funeral arrangements incase a blood test or something is needed , good luck.
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Can i take out life insurance on famous stuntmen or on old people in my neighborhood?
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If I have a life insurance policy and die, but didn't tell anyone of the policy ... is there any way for them to find out?

For example, will the insurance co. monitor death SS records and notify the beneficiary??

Always been curious about that.
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The company I work with allows up to 49,999 without a spousal signature on group Universal Life
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What company do you work for and what insurance company is it?
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Hey, you’re the goto expert. Thanks for hiangng out here.
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Is it possible? My father and mother in law were befriended by a local banker around the time my father in law was diagnosed with prostate cancer. We had my father in law cosign a loan for us through this banker, come to find out he (the banker) had an insurance policy on our loan. Is it possible that the banker could have benefitted from my father in laws passing even if the loan was paid in full. This is the 3 rd or 4th family this banker has befriended near the end of their life, seams suspicious to me. I think he helped my mother in law (second wife) take off out of town with the estate $ that was put in trust for the 5 children.
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I suspect my soon to be X husband has critical life insurance policies on me and hasent said a word! fact is the reason im leaving him is due to his emotional abuse which in return has made my ''HEALTH BAD" ... lol funny how he causes my bad health and secretly takes life insurance out on me through a work Group Plan add on! Ive called the suspected insurance comp ..and ive been the run around. they said due to it being a Group add on through his work ..they do not have to indulge any info to me . I threatened them Id use a lawyer to find out. unbelievable how just because you sign a paper stating you have married a person, it gives them complete rights over your damn life. and they can make you ill and cash in on your illness or death!!!! maybe ill secretly take out a policy on HIM. Forge his name etc etc... and harass the hell out of him so his HEALTH suffers as well. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander! insurance Laws need to be changed ..and right away.
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Lisa, I'm so sorry to hear of your health going south due to marrying the wrong man.....I have too been married to someone with who is shady to say the least. Recently I found out that the land we're on and purchased 10 yrs into the marriage, has his two daughters on it as joint tenants with survivorship rights. Mine is no where to be found. We've been married just months shy of 19 yrs.
Stupidly I went back to him after leaving him on a couple of occasions, even though being screwed over more than once. He grew up very different with a bad and unhappy childhood, never had anything. I told him I'd never take from him, but now I'm pissed. I've asked over and over if he wanted a divorce and everytime the answer was no. Yeah, cheaper to keep her I guess. But i do get confused because he has a very bad opiate addiction. So its' up and down. My health is not so great, could be worse but mentally and emotionally I'm a wreck again, sorry so long, but my reason actually for writing here is my concern over this life insurance policy thing. He has a really shady stepsister who has policies out on people. She's a hustler and has mentioned a few years ago about getting life insurance in the same type way is being referred to on this forum. Now I'm thinking this is real too. So I have two big issues I need to deal with and no idea where or how to figure it all out.
I wish you and everyone else here the very best. I will say a prayer for us all, and will continue to seek out any and all information on here, and hopefully get the hell out without too much damage. Good luck, Lisa.
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I just found out someone took out a 100k life insurance policy on me, and I don't even know the person. I contacted the company and they have all my personal information, but claim the monthly payment is not being made by my account. It's being paid by another person, whom is the beneficiary, and they claim that the beneficiary is noted in their system as my Fiancé and again the man claiming he's my fiancé is not anyone I even know. I'm very worried, & feel I need to notify the police, & I'm trying to find an attorney to help me out, but their are not many attorneys that do this kind of work till someones dead. I agree w/ the folks above, this world is filled w/ many crazy and freaky people. I know a woman who has taken out many life insurance policies on her family members, w/ out their consent. She claims to be an avid Christian, and truely feels she's doing no wrong. Im so over this country and all the corruption that goes by every day yet their are folks in jail for traffic crimes, anyone have any ideas or information to help me please post it, thanks. Note: I do love my country (US) but hate all the injustice that goes unlooked everyday, it's always the rich getting richer, WE MUST STAND UP AND DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY AND RID IT OF THESE EVIL PEOPLE AND CEO's. Thanks.
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I agree with you rosy, life insurance should be outlaw, only be allowed to cover debt, that way no one benefits, that would stop the greedy people. Mankind will dominate man to his own injury.--how true those words are.
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Lisa, we have two things in common. I live in Orlando, Florida and my mom too died under suspicious circumstances. If you want to talk. Email me [email protected] God Bless My name is Dori
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Lisa, we have two things in common. I live in Orlando, Florida and my mom too died under suspicious circumstances. If you want to talk. Email me [email protected] God Bless My name is Dori
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These posts are freaking me out. I just wanted to know if our bank (who made my husband extend his mortgage by 11 yrs just 2 years before it's satisfaction) can take out a Life insurance policy against him without his knowledge after his policy lapsed. He's 60 now, and we'll be paying until 2021! I can't imagine any company would offer coverage without a physical. I had cancer 8 years ago and have no coverage at all. Banks and Insurance Companies need stricter regulation.....they seem to be a bunch of crooks.
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Hi, maybe this will help. Go to Minnesota.gov and go to their "laws" site. Look up insurance laws/regulations. Arm yourself with legal knowledge. Then call the US government agency that regulates insurance. Report fraud. It won't be easy but you can do it in less than a day, depending on how much you want to read. YOU NEED THAT PHONE NUMBER IN WASHINGTON>it is the only way to get the correct and eliminate what has happened to you.

I had to do it myself but in a different state or could give you the info myself. Take care of this now. This person knows your SS#!
good luck and God bless.
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My grandmother has a life insurance policy, from her late sons wife, whom is suspected of foul play, she took everything from them, and she wants to know if there is anyway she can get out of it. the wife forged her signiture while she was in the hospilal. after my grandfather passed the late sons wife got everything, and my grandmother is scared that everything she has is going to the crazy lady who stole everything from them.please help if you can. thank you
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I believe you must have a vested interest to buy insurance. For instance, if I bought fire insurance on your house, I might become very careless with matches. Taking out life insurance on you is even worse, I might invite you to Aruba and there might be a snorkeling accident ;-) In that recent case they took out "travel insurance" so they did not need medical exams and I suspect the took out their own insurance and made the other the beneficiary, not same as taking out insurance "on" someone else.
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IYes,You can take out an insurance policy on someone without their knowledge and rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars and get away with it.My sister is doing it and has become rich.She collected hundred of thousands on my uncle without him knowing about the policy and him signing his name.,and just a months ago she collected on my brother.She has been doing it for years.She is rich and set for life.She also has one on my mother without her knowledge.She got thousands from american general.Because they are so secretly,you can beat the system.
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If the bank holding my husbands's mortgage found out his policy had lapsed, and secretly took out a policy to cover the balance of the loan; wouldn't they bill him for the premiums? Surely his permission would be needed at some point? This stuff is disturbing.
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No more disturbing than finding a crooked coroner to issue death certificates, and a negligent newspaper to write obituararies...
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Any proposed insured must sign the application. Period. If you doubt this, ask any agent.
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Any proposed insured must sign the application. Period. Ask any agent.
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WHERE CAN YOU GET INFO IF SOME ONE HAS TAKEN OUT LIFE INSURANCE POLICY ON ME. MY NEWLY WED HUSBAND HAS BEEN JOKING ON THIS TOO OFTEN.
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can someone take out insurance on a business that is not there business?
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My step-mother took out a life insurance policy on me for $250,000 dollars without my knowledge. To this day I still don't know anything about it, I never did find out about it.

My half-sister also took out a life insurance policy on me for $30,000 dollars without me knowing about it. I didn't find out about that until I died and they used the money to bury me. I did get better later though.
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People been Doing this since forever , just no one noticed, only after the person dies then someone can help, why can't we prevent something befor death , no website or phone number, I suspect something with my mother and I would like to look into it but don't know where to start
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People been Doing this since forever , just no one noticed, only after the person dies then someone can help, why can't we prevent something befor death , no website or phone number, I suspect something with my mother and I would like to look into it but don't know where to start
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You mean the insured is suppose to sign the application.The person that takes out the insurance, fraudulently forge the insured signature and sets the plan in motion. This is how they get away with it.
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Anyone can take a policy out on anyone else, no need to try and find out who or where, bc you will not be justified! I have worked in this field for 10 yrs, and see it every day
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Can i have a life insurance policy on my chil'd father without his signature?
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My sister was my parents POA and had life ins policies on them both she also took all of their savings the day after my mom passed away by taking my father to the bank and adding her name to their bank account he had alzteimers at the time also. The bank accounts were suppose to be split between us but since her name was on the account when dad passed she got it all! My siblings and I were joking around one night that we should take out a policy on her so we would benefit when she passes to reimburse the money she stole from us! I would love to find an Ins Co that would do this for us without her knowledge!!!
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My ex n his wife are separating he had all signs pointing to a hidden policy with a plot to get soyl cudtody of kids n have him harmed...long story but i need info to stoov this cuz all signs add up plz help giveme a number trio stoop thus he's a giiid man n he if our son don't neeed anymore bad sfuff cslle 863547710 or Jamie Sawyer 22@g mail. Doom
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