Aged just 17, Yorkshire born Sam Cook borrowed £2,000 from his father and allegedly turned it into £21.2 million in less than 12 months. This trader “hated school” and viewed his fellow pupils as “posh and stuck up… farmers, uneducated”. This Plymouth resident has a £120,000 Cartier watch and a £165,000 Ferrari and of his future desires, Cook told the Plymouth Herald: “I want to have £2 billion by the time I’m 50”. In July 2015, this liar admitted he had made the whole thing up when he appeared at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court.
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I bet this is a hoax.