Originally Posted by
WillCAD
If this is not a scam or an insurance fraud scheme, I wouldn't call these travelers naive or trusting. They're just plain stupid. STU. PID.
Outside of politics, however, people that dense are pretty rare, so I think there's a good chance that this is a scam or fraud. They probably aren't expecting anything from the gubment, but are instead trying to perpetrate an insurance fraud by claiming $95 in theft. The missing bling either never existed, or has been sold by the owners themselves.
It strikes me as very shady.
They live in a 600 sq foot co-op in Nolita valued at somewhere between $600k and $800K, but were traveling with jewelry worth >10% of what is presumably their biggest asset. They hire a lawyer from a small firm in Poughkeepsie. He (plaintiff, not lawyer) apparently works as an assistant to important people on films. None of this sounds like a couple that would be traveling with such a substantial amount of jewelry.