Burning Other People’s Bridges, Too
My ex girlfriend’s two brothers did 3 & 5 years for fraud. Their dad basically handed them an online business selling a range of chairs. They started collecting the money and not sending orders out, rather than just building up the business slowly and taking some of the profits.
The older brother already owned 3 properties and they took somewhere near 100s of thousands of £’s before it all kicked off and they got arrested. I don’t know what they were thinking.
Oh and the main brother/director had already crashed businesses and been blacklisted, no chance of loans etc. So he used my ex’s (18 at the time) name as director and she got dragged to court too.
Thankfully they took a plea deal accepting fault and got her off, but she lost her head during this and flew to Amsterdam without telling me. So I got left with all the bills at the house, two cats and no girlfriend. Also she sold my car. Good times. Goooooood times. Story credit: Reddit / MyFingerYourBum