Scamming and identity theft is now on the major rise and in fact, even bodies and identities of dead individuals are being used for some purposes. Many people most likely think that body snatching is a thing of the past. Burke and Hare famously took bodies for medical schools in nineteenth century Scotland, and are two of history's most vilified crooks. Grave robbing has typically been the choice of very desperate crooks with remarkably low scruples. In the book and movie "True Grit," a frontier dentist tries to make a deal with passersby for the possession of a dead body but in real life, such thing happens also. Yes, that really happens and it's totally disgusting. The dead have always had some worth for those willing to plumb low enough to get it. Today, the deceased are worth more than ever before, and their trade is alive and well. A recent study claims that over 2 million deceased people have their identities stolen on a yearly basis. And that is just in the United States alone. I found it here:
Trading on the dead: postmortem identity theft