Real Life Mrs. Doubtfire (Kind Of) – Italian Man Allegedly Attempted To Disguise Himself As Dead Mom To Continue Cashing $61,000 A Year In Pension Checks

TMZ – An Italian man allegedly pulled a full-on "Mrs. Doubtfire" scam by dressing up as his dead mother to keep cashing her pension checks as her body sat in their house ... for years.

The unnamed 56-year-old man left the dead body of his 82-year-old mom -- Graziella Dall’Oglio -- to mummify as he pulled off the elaborate scam, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

The unemployed nurse transformed himself into his mother -- wearing a '70s-style blouse, makeup, clip-on earrings and all -- to dupe authorities into giving him his mother's pension check -- and even a brand-new updated I.D., the outlet reports.

The man was reportedly raking in around $61,000 a year from his mom's survivor pension -- her husband had died a few years earlier -- and was sitting pretty with the family's investments in real estate and land.

But, his mask was stripped shortly after a registry office clerk noticed Dall'Oglio had quite masculine features, and didn't appear to be 82. The employee alerted officials, who launched an internal investigation and compared a recent photo with expired identification from a decade ago ... and they became more suspicious.

Good try, good effort. As far as homemade dead mom disguises go, that's not too shabby. It's pretty shabby. But not too. If my guard wasn't up, and I gave a quick glance down at mom's I.D., then a quick glance up at her disguised son's weird plastic face, I might fall for that. There's A LOT of ugly women out there in the world. And the LAST thing any man wants to do is tell a woman that she's so fucking ugly you don't to believe she's a woman at all. You'd hate to be wrong there. In almost any situation, unless I'm guarding the nuclear launch codes, if there's even a 1% chance of me being incorrect, I'm turning the other the other cheek and living to fight another day. What do I care if some random dude cashes in on what in the grand scheme of things is a pretty negligible amount of pension money? Those stakes aren't nearly high enough for me to walk out on that limb. No chance my low-level Italian government official job is paying me enough for that. 

Although this man was busted while trying to renew her official government I.D.. It's one thing to let an impossibly ugly woman walk out of a bank with a little money. It's another thing to let that person officially assume someone else's identify. But the far bigger red flag is the way this man kept his dead mother in a sleeping bag for years. Even if he didn't kill her, any person who's ever illegally mummified a body should probably be in prison. How does one even go about doing that? Thankfully, this CNN article explained it (barely), so I didn't have to perform a "How do you mummify a dead body?" Google search.

CNN – He is accused of removing fluids from his mother’s body with a syringe to prevent decomposition, and an autopsy has been ordered to determine how she died.

Maybe I'd use a syringe to remove fluids from a dead relative's body if it was going to net me $1,000,000/year. But that's not worth $61,000. Sure, it's enough to live on. But the risk isn't worth the reward. You can't be turning mom into a mummy for mediocre real estate agent money. 

Love the effort. Love the creativity. I think you're a horrible person. But it's a hilarious enough endeavor that I'll at least tip my cap to you on your way to prison. Here are some Mrs. Doubtfire highlights. RIP Robin Williams.