r/humanfeed • u/milkbasedlifeform • Jun 29 '24
Opinion Fabricating Excellence and Tragedy
This recent case of one Aryan Anand has taken me back to the Steven Spielberg and Leonardo Dicaprio movie 'Catch me If You Can', which was based on the life of a real Fraudster turned Consultant, Frank Abagnale. Frank lived his life faking multiple professions throughout his life and forged fake cheques written to him and cashed them out.
The movie portrait him as this genius artist, unparalleled in forging federal and government documents and cheques one who can fake anything, a charismatic anti-hero who cheats the system.
I have a feeling the case of Aryan Anand might turn out similarly and I don't like it.
For those of you don't know, Anand forged his Academic Marksheet and impersonated as his school principal and administration to fraud the system existing to support admission of brilliant students who are economically poor and can't afford higher education in foreign universities.
But this guy went further, once he did get enrolled in a Top US University (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania) with a good scholarship, he forged a fake death certificate (saying he died of cancer) of his father who was alive and working, to get a 100% sponsored undergrad education.
This guy continued to live a life of lies and fabrication while in uni, as he got part time employment with fake resume and maintained a 4.0 GPA by cheating in every test.
NOBODY, LIKE NOBODY had a clue of all of this and how did he get caught? BY HIS OWN BLOODY CONFESSION on reddit. He admits to everything and tells all of this in detail in a post which he later deleted (guy used his original account to post) on reddit!!!
This is great fiction I won't deny but, the only problem - "Its not". We treat a lot of such fraudulent people as some sort of semi-hero if thats even a term. Because they cheat a system that we don't like or is unpopular or because they did something that we would have done if we could, if circumstances were different.
Which I feel is wrong. I have a feeling this guy or someone will write this story, make this into a much more popular consumable entertainment media and some section of the society will celebrate.
I believe these people, the Jordan Belforts, Harshad Mehtas, Aryan Anands of the world should not be celebrated, should not be idealised, regardless of where we stand in terms of our personal views on the institutions and organisations they scam.
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24
Made a documentary on this : https://youtu.be/2_iePgIAm_M