What's the craziest "Intern lying/cheating himself into IB" success story you've heard?

Got interested in this after that other thread of the guy who posted about faking an IB internship. This is so some dumbass high-schoolers here can be inspired and I can hear about the analyst who didn't pass the background check in a few years.

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