Maybe this is one of those by proxy syndromes where the parent is sick and seeking attention by setting the kid up. With everything else in life I can’t imagine throwing this much energy and time into a stupid scam that takes years to pull off.
That's a possibility. Without more information, we have no way of knowing how this particular story, names and place and detail, was transmitted to the boy.
With everything else in life I can’t imagine throwing this much energy and time into a stupid scam that takes years to pull off.
Single moms on welfare have a lot of spare time. We don't know for sure that this is the situation here, but it seems to be an absolute majority of "families" in the UK these days.
I would still be inclined to believe that it's an innocent misunderstanding of some information that he's acquired, simply because it's so mean to deliberately upset a child in this way.