Wikipedia:Max Fosh

Maximilian Arthur "Max" Fosh (born April 3, 1995) is an English YouTuber and prankster, best known for planning and documenting elaborate practical jokes.

Personal life
Fosh is the son of English cricketer Matthew Fosh and Helena Wilhelmina van der Kun. His sister is Talitha Helena Fosh.

Pranks
In March 2021, Fosh ran for the Mayor of London specifically to take votes away from Laurence Fox. Fosh bought the LaurenceFox.org website and advocated for policies including building a Jurassic Park, providing each household with a cow, and changing police sirens to Laurence Fox's music which "will get people to move out the way 23% faster." The bid was successful, as Laurence Fox lost his £10,000 deposit after failing to secure enough votes. Fosh received 27,718 votes in total.

World's Richest Man for 7 Minutes
On February 13, 2022, Fosh published a video describing how he reportedly "Became The World’s Richest Man For 7 Minutes" by exploiting a market capitalization loophole. In his video, Fosh describes: "If I created and registered a company with 10 billion shares named Unlimited Money, Ltd. and sold one of those shares for 50 pounds as an investment opportunity, that would legally value my company at 500 billion pounds; technically that company will be worth 500 billion pounds...Thus making me the richest man in the world, absolutely decimating my nearest rival, Elon Musk."Fosh sent an application to the UK's Companies House for a company titled Unlimited Money, Ltd. that supposedly manufactured "macaroni, noodles, couscous and similar farinaceous products." Fosh's application was accepted. He took to the streets to find investors, and his first and only investor was a passerby named Hope who bought a share in his company at 50 pounds. Two weeks after submitting his valuation in the mail, he received the following government response:"Given the range of information provided to us, the market cap of Unlimited Money Ltd has been assessed as 500 billion pounds. Due to lack of revenue activity, there is a high likelihood that you are being accused of fraudulent activity. It is the reason we highly recommend Unlimited Money Limited is dissolved as a matter of urgency."With the permission of his only shareholder, Fosh reimbursed the 50 pounds and immediately dissolved the company. Fosh then claims his net worth was $583 billion, but only for 7 minutes prior to the dissolution of the company.

"Welcome to Luton"
On May 22, 2022, BBC News reported about Fosh's "Welcome to Luton" stunt. Fosh had rented farmland beside Gatwick Airport to erect a 60m (197ft) "Welcome to Luton" tarpaulin sign, visible from the left side of incoming airplanes 90 seconds before landing. The goal was to confuse thousands of tourists into thinking they had arrived in Luton Airport, which is 60 miles south of Gatwick. Multiple viral tweets lead to the publicity of the stunt. The story became BBC's most-read story. Fosh spent over £4,000 renting the land and erecting the sign. Fosh documented the process in the May 25 2022 video "I Made Tourists Think They Landed at the Wrong Airport." The sign will stay up until June 30, 2022.