I was once approached by this man (link below) with a proposal for a publishing joint venture. He had done his research, we got chatting and he claimed to have done military service in order to qualify for a family inheritance. He told me his family had come over from France ".. after the war". "Really, I asked.. ".. First or Second"? "Neither, dear boy, he intoned without missing a beat.. "1066".
I had been a civvy for 2 years, had just left a FTSE100 company and was now starting up a new business. We had just been listed in Tesco (forget Dragons Den!), were growing very quickly and I was probably receptive to wanting to believe someone who could help our trajectory, although he was clearly BS'ing and he left followed by us cracking up.
I don't like gratuitous outing, but gullible people will be approaching a survival instructor, possibly swayed by a proclaimed specialist military background, to learn life saving skills. Not on.
Christopher Fulke-Greville, Chris Fulke Greville, Help4Heroes Fraud