It’s not uncommon to hear about royalty in the developing world trying to scam you with money. Well obviously not the actual royal family but usually some guy that found a computer trying to convince you that he is a Nigerian prince that simply wants to share his millions with you, requesting your bank details to do so.

But it is a scam not usually taken up by those who are already rich. The Boss of a prestige car hire company has been caught pretending to be part of the Kuwaiti royal family in an effort to scam more than half a million pounds from unsuspecting victims.

Bugatti Veyron

Koroush Pour is not a poor man. He hired his Bugatti Veyron, a Million pound super-car, to the BBC to make some of the most memorable episodes of Top Gear. He has been caught using his car hire firm Swift Hire to steal credit using his customers personal details and sold cars which still had hundreds of thousands of pounds in outstanding finance.

To top it off, he scammed two retired nurses out of their pension funds of over £120,000. He abused their plans to retire in Spain, claiming he could get them a better exchange rate threw his car hire company.

The judge told Pour: “You have not only probably brought shame on your self and your family, but you reduced your own circumstances to one where you are quite unable to live the lavish lifestyle I’m told you were living.” He was sentenced to two years in jail.