(NEWSER) – The first scam has emerged in an apparent bid for compensation from the operators of crippled cruise liner Costa Concordia. A woman and her boyfriend were arrested in Hungary after falsely reporting two people missing on the ship, according to officials. The scheme was spotted by a New York lawyer who is representing six Hungarian survivors from the wreck. He became suspicious when he was contacted by the woman, who asked how much money she could expect for her missing daughter and granddaughter—and kept modifying her story, reports ABC News. The Hungarian Foreign Ministry was also suspicious when officials discovered one of the names being used belonged to a woman who had been dead for years. “It was absolutely clear that it was a fake story,” said a ministry official. An investigation is continuing. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the cruise liner, and 16 are still missing.

This was immediately the first thing I thought of when the Costa Condcordia tipped over. (I don’t say it sank I say it tipped over.) But not from this insurance fraud point of view. I thought about how many people could have walked off of that ship, faked their death, and completely started their lives over. Like anybody with crippling debt. A criminal record. A failing marriage. Whatever. Its the perfect opportunity to be assumed dead and just disappear forever. Shit it doesn’t even have to be that dramatic of a situation. Look at someone like fuckin Feitelberg. Dude is spending his life driving around in a pick up truck with Tom fucking Zollo dancing like a chicken for college kids. This morning I asked him what he was doing and he responded “I’m about to go to Dick’s Sporting Goods. I have to go buy a bike pump to blow up balloons.” Kid’s life sucks. And to top it off, he’s like the only idiot in the world named Feitelberg. You Google his name and all you’re gonna find is racist and offensive blogs and videos of him drunk as shit. You telling me he wouldn’t walk off the Costa Concordia and let “John Feitelberg” drown? Dude would probably wipe his slate clean in a heartbeat.