Feeling a bit bored today read through all of this thread with a mixture of astonishment and amusement, would have been mostly amusement other than the poor souls who got taken in or nearly taken in.
Quite astonishing really how people behave like this-reminds me of another couple of very long standing and informative Pprune threads, fake airline entrepreneur and dodgy ferry company.
One wonders why people can be so strangely deluded about their place in the world and their own abilities, bit like Nigel Farage in some ways, he at least has money behind him even if no one knows where it came from