So yesterday a friend I haven't seen in nearly 3 years rings me and ask if I wanted to pop around for a coffee- I said yes, of course! She is 27, single and has two children who are 4 and 3.
Went there today and she said "wait until I show you what my new "business" is". Basically- she is selling fakes. Fake ralph lauren clothes, fake bags, fake MAC makeup- you name it, she is selling it. I don't know if she is selling these things as legitimate- I couldn't tell the difference with the things I look at so any novice will be taken for a ride. She bragged that she makes "at least two thousand a month" and she is on state benefits too- income support (£55 a week), child benefit (£20 a week for her oldest and something like £16 for her youngest) housing benefit (her rent is pretty much paid for in full), council tax benefit (meaning she will have to pay minimal- about £40 a month, average is about £100- I THINK!) and then tax credits too- can't work out how much but at least another £200 a month.
She uses the money for designer clothes for her kids, she has a state of the art kitchen (I kid you not) and the living room was cluttered with toys from Christmas- including a ride on Audi which is a couple hundred pounds and she has just come back from a 4 night trip to London "where she kitted out the kids from harrords and brought them some lovely toys in hamleys". Now the hotel must of been £150/200 a night for a decent one (which it would of been) about another £100/150 for train tickets so thats several hundred quid worth of trip.
Its all so, so, so, so, so wrong. Selling fakes annoys me alot, its wrong...especially when your not declaring this income to the benefits office, thats fraud. I want to report her....but I have known her all my life and I don't want to hurt my friend.
But then the annoyance of it being so wrong overrules it..
What would you all do?
Went there today and she said "wait until I show you what my new "business" is". Basically- she is selling fakes. Fake ralph lauren clothes, fake bags, fake MAC makeup- you name it, she is selling it. I don't know if she is selling these things as legitimate- I couldn't tell the difference with the things I look at so any novice will be taken for a ride. She bragged that she makes "at least two thousand a month" and she is on state benefits too- income support (£55 a week), child benefit (£20 a week for her oldest and something like £16 for her youngest) housing benefit (her rent is pretty much paid for in full), council tax benefit (meaning she will have to pay minimal- about £40 a month, average is about £100- I THINK!) and then tax credits too- can't work out how much but at least another £200 a month.
She uses the money for designer clothes for her kids, she has a state of the art kitchen (I kid you not) and the living room was cluttered with toys from Christmas- including a ride on Audi which is a couple hundred pounds and she has just come back from a 4 night trip to London "where she kitted out the kids from harrords and brought them some lovely toys in hamleys". Now the hotel must of been £150/200 a night for a decent one (which it would of been) about another £100/150 for train tickets so thats several hundred quid worth of trip.
Its all so, so, so, so, so wrong. Selling fakes annoys me alot, its wrong...especially when your not declaring this income to the benefits office, thats fraud. I want to report her....but I have known her all my life and I don't want to hurt my friend.
But then the annoyance of it being so wrong overrules it..
What would you all do?