A 17 year old from Yorkshire, England was brought in for questioning the other day, when it was revealed that he was not a billionare airline investor. The boy, who’s father requested he remain nameless, had been masquerading as a wealthy businessman for almost six months, meeting with airport CEO’s and convincing airline executives that he owned a fleet of jets.

The Yorkshire teenager’s six-month-long ruse, which included placing articles in industry magazines, foundered only after one publication, Airliner World, became suspicious. It started to unravel the complex network that Tait had set up of fake websites, “virtual offices” complete with a real telephone receptionist and bogus names.

From the Times Online

His parents had no idea. No one has really said what he planned to gain from all this. His previous con was tricking the broadway cast of High School Musical to appear at a 300 seat local theater in Shropshire, by faking written communication between a producer and Disney.