Elaborate hoax tricks reporter into writing a story about "young chef"

This is an incredibly interesting story:

may be a young and relatively inexperienced reporter, but the other reporters in my office have never come across a scenario quite like this one. Not one reporter in my office could think of a time in their careers when a source had made up such an elaborate hoax and then conned a reporter.

Read it. He even tricked his mom. His mom!