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Michigan woman gets $9,000 of rebates using fake receipts

By Daniel Uria
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman faces charges of mail fraud after acquiring thousands of dollars in rebates through a receipt scam.

Carol Rae Vitton, 59, was indicted for using over 700 counterfeit receipts to receive $9,000 worth of rebates from beer wine and liquor companies.

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She is due in court in January for the crimes which occurred from Sept. 2010 to Oct. 2011.

"Specifically, Carol Ray Vitton, with the intent to defraud, knowingly devised and intended to devise a scheme (a) to create counterfeit sales receipts that falsely and fraudulently indicated that she had made beer, wine and liquor purchases and (b) to send these counterfeit sales receipts and associated rebate applications by the U.S. mail to beer, wine, and liquor companies, and associated rebate companies in order to obtain rebate payments which she was not entitled," Attorney Maarten Vermaat wrote in court documents.

If convicted would face 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

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