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Happened to me once. I did not know who he was in told him so. It's possible the guy was bluffing. He claimed to be some state senator.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I once had a guy claim he was one of the guys that invented the internet. I googled his name afterwards and it didn't turn up anything and he was incapable of performing the basic tasks required to reset his password to our website so I'm pretty confident he was full of shit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The internet was invented in 1972 by Tim HTML in order to watch his coffee pot in another room. He was going to be rich, but then the plans leaked online.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Close enough, B+