An Indonesian mom is accused of faking her own death in an elaborate attempt to avoid paying off a debt she owed to another woman.
The alleged scam artist — known only as “L” — reportedly owed an undisclosed sum to associate Maya Gunawan, with the cash initially due Nov. 20.
According to the Daily Star, L was unable to procure the money by that date and asked Gunawan to extend the loan until Dec. 6.
That day came and went — and Gunawan was shocked when she logged onto Facebook Dec. 12 to discover a post from L’s daughter announcing her mom had been killed in a car crash.
The post proclaimed L had died after an incident on a bridge near her home in Medan, North Sumatra. It further declared she would be buried 370 miles away in the city of Banda Aceh.
The Facebook update included a photo of a “corpse” wrapped in a sheet and a different image of a gurney being wheeled into a hospital. Two additional images showed L wrapped in a “shroud” with her eyes closed as she played dead.
However, the daughter reportedly…