Graham Briggs had his first taste of prison in 1995 when he was jailed for 14 months for stealing 55,000 from a London-based company. The following year, Briggs made headlines again when he posed as a Concorde pilot to woo a former air hostess before fleeing with 25,000 of her money. He spent two and a half years in prison for this crime but that did not deter him from swindling. Upon his release, he set about unleashing the Swan Fund scam on the unsuspecting, gaining investments in his fraudulent scheme worth around 2 million.