$500K For an Indian Poker 8 Year Old?

The rumour mill over at TwoPlusTwo forums and all over Google has been going crazy at the suggestion an 8 year old from India has won $500,000 at an as yet undisclosed poker site.

Not to be a sceptic but I think FloppyNutz over at 2+2 has it right when he says:-

Only in poker could u read news sites, & it's still 50-50 whether it's BS

I have no real idea how so many sites have broken this story as fact across the internet when there is no apparent source, detail etc. If only it was a few days later in the year and we'd know it was a steaming pile of April Foolery.

To be honest I almost hope it's not true as if the winner truly is very poor from a poor family that amount of money would be huge - the cruelty of having it withheld by the site pretty unimaginable.