As a matter of interest, the date Mr. Brittas gives as the (then) future booking date, October 25, 1999, was a Monday. The events shown here do demonstrate how times have changed, since, although the World Wide Web had already been around for about six years by this time, computerisation, which is standard nowadays, was still a relatively novel thing in some parts.
Considering the teenage computer expert's claim that he "borrowed" twenty million pounds, to put it into his father's Cayman Island account for two weeks, then returned the capital, but pocketed the interest, if the rate was, say, 10% per annum, which it might be on such a huge amount, he could have made, risk free, but not necessarily legally nor morally, about 77,000 quid.