Found the old fart <| sep |> You do realize that we have a resourcebased economy ? Reputation , what reputation ? Reputation that we are controlled by idiot greens ? <| sep |> Admire the craft , but it feels the same as admiring a great piece of furniture . Which I suppose is meaning enough ? <| sep |> 1 wordpress URL is easy enough to come up with , so discount that . 2 33 years old now ? matrix was proposed in 1995 and released in 1999 . So lets take a mid point for arguments sake , 1997 . We can conclude then that he was ~ 1314 years old when he was the Neo inspiration . Possible ? Yes . Probable ? no . The logistics of being noticed for high profile hacks at that age by busy Hollywood producers ? I ' m not feeling it , but I do have a margin of error there . 3 If you have an email from him James Williams the email will have headers in it . Google how to look up email headers with your mail client , and run some forensics on the information provided . TimeDateSource IP etc . Emails are one of the simpler things to spoof , but , let ' s see if the headers reconcile out . 4 James Williams , Masters Degree , NYU . Here ' s a form you can fill out at NYU to verify graduation . , go to private contractors that do employment screening . Easy to figure out . 5 16 programming languages ? OK , not really impressed . Does this include VBASPBasic from 20 years ago or does this represent current and fluent ? 6 A deep dive on youtubegoogle identity not done here . Looks legit , have him post make a 10 second post to your specifications on that channel . Conclusion . On a 5 minute glance to verifynot verify , there ' s really no smoking gun one way or the other . As you collect information you ' ll be building a heuristics score that will present a clear indication of what ' s going on .