How did he get away with it? The story of Frederic Bourdin
A balding 31-year-old Frenchman nicknamed the Chameleon fooled
social workers and fellow pupils into believing he was a teenage orphan
and spent weeks at a school before being unmasked. Frédéric
Bourdin passed himself off as an imaginary 15-year-old Spaniard,
Francisco Hernandez-Fernandez. He is said to have previously assumed 39
other false identities. This time he dyed his greying
hair blond, meticulously shaved his beard, applied facial hair remover
and covered his bald patch with a baseball cap to achieve the desired
effect.He was taken into care after a local resident
believed his account that he had run away when both his parents were
killed in a car crash.
Bourdin spent a month in a children's home and secondary school in Pau, south-western France, without raising suspicions... He spend a couple of months in Arizona before pretending to be a lost son of a familiy who took him as their own son... even with a terrible french accent :-) I found a youtube video of Frederic here.
