Nursery rhymes, though most commonly associated with playgrounds and sticky fingers, have made the leap over the schoolyard fence, and into a Virginia fraud investigation. While the most popular rhymes involve a girl and her sheep, or a certain very small spider, there was one that Gordon Scott Keso really should have recited to himself before submitting his claims.

On June 30, 2006, Keso submitted a claim to his State Farm insurance agency, stating that his truck had sustained damage after running over a large I-beam on an interstate in Caroline County, Virginia. Oddly, the police were never notified of this accident.

That wasn't the only odd thing about the case. Keso allegedly contacted State Farm concerning his claim, and was told to repair the truck and then submit the receipts. After the company received the repair receipts in 2007, an adjuster was dispatched to inspect the truck.

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