I love stories about liars. I can imagine Sam Rockwell playing him. Or in his younger days, perhaps Richard E.Grant:

Prosecutor Robert Smith QC said Scott, who is unemployed, told library staff he was a multi-millionaire who had inherited a construction business from his father, had a house in Switzerland and that his mother lived in Monte Carlo.

In fact, the court heard, Scott lived with his mother Hannah in a modest house in Washington, Tyne and Wear – ten miles from where the folio was stolen.

Thanks to Cordelia O’Neill for the link.