Andrew Carlssin

Andrew Carlssin

Andrew Carlssin is a fictional person from a news story hoax. A story on Yahoo reported that a man named Andrew Carlssin had been arrested for SEC violations for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. It was said that he started with an initial investment of $800 and made a fortune of over $350,000,000. He claimed to be a time-traveller from the year 2256. Upon making bail, he had promptly disappeared. The news article was originally published by the Weekly World News and later on was reprinted as on Yahoo News' Entertainment and Gossip section. The story was also included in the book "Pedestrian safety expert gets hit by bus" by Huw Davies. [Davies, Huw, and Ebury Press. "Pedestrian Safety Expert Gets Hit by Bus". Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0740754645] It was made to be an April fools joke.

References

See also

* Claims of time travel

External links

* [http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/insider.htm snopes.com] article describing the hoax


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