The story of Frank Abagnale was quite a thrilling one. Immortalized in the film Catch Me If You Can, we see the life of Frank as a con artist, and how he was able to deceive people into believing that he was this or that, jumping from one profession to the other as a means to survive. Later on, he is caught and was offered to work for the FBI Financial Crimes Unit. It’s a very interesting true-to-life story. There is a Scottish version of it, which has been made into a documentary in 2022 titled My Old School.
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It’s the story of how a 30-year-old man named Brian MacKinnon conned his high school into thinking that he was a 16-year-old high schooler named Brandon Lee. His reason for doing it was so that he could go back to university and continue pursuing his dreams of becoming a doctor. None of his classmates or teachers had realized his true identity until a few years later. Jono McLeod, an old classmate of his, decided to make a film about him and his time at Bearsden Academy, so he had an audio interview with “Brandon” 20 years later as well as interviews with other former classmates, and turned it into a documentary about the most successful hoaxer in Scottish history.
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Source: neatorama