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Hey that's me :)

Lol, and how did that work out for you?

I'd bet that was a bouncer/client set address, for the joke.

Sigh, people probably trust things like this today because FB(whatsapp)/Google/slack/discord forces you to sign up with valid phone numbers and probably expose that as your ID.

His resume has that place of work listed. Of course it could be part of the joke too, but thats elaborate.

I think the joke may have been by ChrisLMB, who saw the opportunity when he read the unmasked second-level domain in ben174's address.

Definitely had this happen to me when I was new on IRC.

But the guy's got LMB in his name, what's up with that?

That would be the opportunity, I guess. :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ben174

His resume says he was an engineer at LowerMyBills between November, 2003 to June, 2004.

now you ought to tell how it turned out!

I too would like to know how this turned out!

You can't just say that and then not follow up. It's literally against HN rules, read the ToS.

If he's lying, it's an extremely elaborate set up

https://www.bugben.com/

...check out his resume.

I’m so glad I fired you.

Did you actually?

Green account, no other comments; almost certainly not.

... how did that work out for you?! Did you get fired? Did that exchange actually happen?

sad story ben!

I thought of this exactly.

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