Had two club members with a ppl persuade that crook recruiting for Colonel Cullen's lot in Angola that they were qualified to fly choppers as well....both luckily got out alive although one was in the line up where Cullen executed some of his own.
One returned through Brussels with a semi automatic pistol in his camera case as he was going to execute the recruiter (King?) and got pulled by Heathrow customs. Got away without a custodial sentence.
In a similar vein had an instructor who said he was RAF...actually assistant controller at Ipswich...went onto great things in the CAA including prosecution of Glen Stewart...hounded a mate on Concorde who caught him out when he boasted that he was on spits...