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* Two episodes of ''[[CSI]]'' featured criminals pulling this ''on the cops'' (with variable success). In "The Finger," a man murders his mistress, then sets up a fake kidnapping to make it look like someone else did it. In "Suckers," a casino security chief arranges a fake murder...which is a cover for the theft of a priceless antique... which is a cover for a heist from the casino's vault... {{spoiler|which is the cover for a massive insurance scam}}.
** In the latter case, while the mastermind doesn't get arrested, Grissom does {{spoiler|give all his evidence (circumstantial at best) to the insurance company. Presumably, they require less proof to deny a claim}}.
* A latter-season episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle", Veronica masterminds a scam like this on a basketball manager who's trying to frame Wallace for a hit-and-run, pulled by Wallace, Jackie, and a cop Veronica knows who moonlights as a security guard.
* Used a few times in ''[[The Rockford Files]],'' but the most impressive occurrence was the two-part episode "Never Send a Boy King to do a Man's Job." To describe it wouldn't do it justice, but it involved an entire fake company, a large number of Egyptian-themed movie props, a faked auction of archeological finds, ''real'' race cars, the legendary curse of King Tut, and five faked deaths.
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