If you were going to commit some kind of burglary, you might wear a rubber mask depicting a famous person. What if you were just stood there with your own stupid face, holding an ID card with an Oscar winner on it, grinning inanely saying 'yep, that's me alright!'?
Step forward one dazzlingly simple Brazilian conman.
A Brazilian man found his collar being felt by the long arm of the law as he tried to open a fraudulent bank account with a fake ID that featured a photo of actor Jack Nicholson. That'd be Jack 'massively recognisable' Nicholson.
According to CNN, the police chief in the Brazilian city of Recife said that Ricardo Sergio Freire de Barros, impressively thick, was being watched by the cops for some time after the department received several reports of fraudulent activity.
Chief Erivaldo Guerra said Barros had been using fake IDs to open credit cards, bank accounts and whatnot.
However, what the police won't have counted on was that, when they actually arrested Barros, he would be carrying an ID which featured a stupidly famous person's photograph on it, who is more than 30 years older than the conman.
You can picture him, doing an awful impression of the actor as he tried to get a student overdraft or something, and then signing his name "Joao Pedro dos Santos" rather than 'The Very Famous Actor Jack Nicholson".
It goes without saying that Barros is now in jail, awaiting trial on charges of falsification of a public document and use of false documents.
Maybe he'll escape prison by simply saying that he's George Clooney before holding up a drawing of the actor daubed in faecal matter on a fellow prisoner's back?
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