Fraudsters usually aim for modest goals: pretending to be cops, bureaucrats or even ministers to fleece the unsuspecting. But Ghaziabad, near Delhi, recently produced a scamster who thought bigger—much bigger. He didn’t just impersonate a government official; he became an ambassador plenipotentiary, set up his own embassy, and represented not one but several countries no one has ever heard of. Meet Harshvardhan Jain, a man with diplomatic flair and, apparently, very poor geography. He claimed to be the envoy of countries like Lodonia, West Arctica, Seborga and Pulwavia—names that are, in reality, obscure villages tucked away under existing sovereign nations. If at all they exist.

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