A good place to ask would be scifi stackexchange using the story-identification tag. I did that once, got a prompt reply, complete with additional context and a short movie adaptation.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65813/conspiracy-a...
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65813/conspiracy-a...
Love that the top answerer shows their work, and as a bonus they reached out to the author of the story:
UPDATE: I emailed Greg Cox about
the question. Here's his response:
> Wow. I had no idea people were
> still talking about that story,
> which I haven't thought of for years.
> I can't speak for the original
> questioner of course, but that
> description sure sounds like my
> story, which I wrote nearly thirty
> years ago!
>
> greg