Midget racist crackpot Steven L. Akins tried to 'plant' a fake gravestone in a Scots cemetery - to back up his claim to be a clan chief.
Akins is a forum administrator at
https://www.f4bbs.com/ and still tries to carry on this lie.
He planned to mock up the bogus headstone at his home in Alabama, then have it smuggled into a graveyard to be photographed.
Akins could then use it as 'proof' that his ancestors had lived in Scotland in the 1700s.
The 34-year-old, who has never set foot in Scotland, tried to recruit Glaswegian William Wallace to help him.
He offered to ship the tombstone to Scotland for William to plant in a cemetery.
But William, 45, yesterday dismissed the American, who has lodged his claim to be chief of the Akins clan with the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, as "crazy" and a complete fraud.
He said: "He contacted me on the internet and asked if I would be willing to help him forge proof that his family were based in Lanarkshire in the 1700s.
"He suggested sending me a tombstone bearing his family name and crest and asked if I would find an abandoned cemetery where it could be photographed.
"Akins hoped the photographic 'proof' would guarantee his clan chieftainship."
William added: "He changed his name to Steven L. Akins of that Ilk in a bid to sound more Scots and authentic. The man is crazy."
Akins has set up his own internet site, featuring pictures of him in full Highland dress - complete with a bizarre raccoon-skin sporran - alongside his wife, who he refers to as Lady Akins.
The site also offers membership of the Clan Akins Society to all people with related names at a price of $15 dollars a year.
He claims to have documents which validate his claim and says an old picture of a Highland soldier is of his great-grandfather, the intriguingly-named Baron Dekalb Akins.
But, according to William, the 'ancient' documents were written by Akins himself and are covered in Tippex corrections.
He said: "Akins' wife contacted me as she was worried that what he was doing was illegal. She sent me one of the documents which Akins copied and submitted to the Lord Lyon.
"It was dated November 25, 1747, but it was covered in correction fluid and different colours of ink.
His wife ended up leaving him and dating the scottish guy William Wallace mentioned above after internet correspondence
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