Imagine waking up tomorrow with the solution to the Voynich Manuscript.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I won't ask 'who', since this could potentially be a libellous claim, and we'd have to lock the topic.  But to the best of my memory, I can't think of any solver who I have ever thought might be knowingly scamming people like that.

I can think of a few of them...  And you may know one or two, if you think more over it...

Some have acted in unpleasant ways and got themselves banned but I cannot recall ever having reason to doubt they sincerely held (and still hold) the belief that they are the one to pull the sword from the stone.

They may have been honest at first.  Like the guys who invented cold fusion, the chloroquine cure, homeopathy, biorhythm, the mile-deep spiral staircases under the Great Pyramid, the Stonehenge quarry, the Theranos blood analyzer... But when their inventions were debunked, they could not give up the fame and fortunes that they had achieved thanks to it.  They embraced the fraud, and kept pushing their discoveries all the same...

All the best, --stolfi