Jack Nicholson may not have been at the Academy Awards on Sunday, but his presence was felt in Brazil yesterday when a man, Ricardo Sergio Freire de Barros, attempted to open a bank account with a fake ID featuring the actor’s famous visage. Although this sounds like an airtight plan, especially for someone whom police describe as baring “no resemblance” to Nicholson, it was surprisingly unsuccessful.

Barros had already been the subject of police surveillance for several months following a few tips about his fraudulent hobbies, which included using fake IDs to apply for high-limit credit cards and then defaulting on them. Like most serial criminals in dramatized television shows, Barros apparently became lazy and/or arrogant about his craft and used not only a photo of the world-famous actor, but a world-famous photo of the world-famous actor, by portraitist Martin Schoeller. To his small credit, Barros did not use the highly recognizable name “Jack Nicholson” on the document, choosing instead the jaunty “João Pedro dos Santos.” To quote The Mirror, that’s as good as it got.

Barros, who is more than 30 years younger than the Oscar winner, was arrested shortly after trying to use the ID to secure a bank account. It is not known whether Barros made any attempt to sound like the actor during his ill-fated maneuver.

Today, the world’s most careless Nicholson impersonator awaits trial for use of false documents and falsification of a public document.