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The signature from Dinna Eskin at the bottom of the letter appears perfectly identical to the one on this letter from 2022: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-sends-cease-and-desis...

It's possible that she copy-pastes her own signature, but this is evidence in favor of the Cybertruck incident being a hoax.

The Cybertruck letter also lists her as "Sr. Director and Deputy General Counsel". But her LinkedIn page lists "Deputy General Counsel & Director, Infrastructure & CapEx" as a previous title; her current title is listed as "VP, Legal": https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinna-eskin-743a7435/

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> It's possible that she copy-pastes her own signature...

I was under the impression that that was standard practice for this sort of letter, lest merely being in this role at a company results in numerous examples of your real signature being given to a ton of random people? I mean, the original there doesn't even look like a "real" signature.

(I agree that the wrong title, though, tells us this is almost certainly fake.)

I agree that the original doesn't look like a scan of pen-and-paper, but it looks real to me in the sense that it looks like a person made it, and it's not just a cursive font. It looks too messy, and some of the letters are too indistinct, for it to likely be a cursive font. It appears consistent with a signature entry pad peripheral, a stylus on a tablet, or similar. I would say that largely rules out a security practice; if that were the motivation, it would make more sense to use a cursive font. As I said, I do think it's possible that she copy-pastes her own signature; but if so, the motive I would expect is reducing effort.

> It's possible that she copy-pastes her own signature

I've been continually using Preview.app's feature to easily insert your signature from a menu using the same signature I scanned in using the camera on my MacBook back when they first added that feature literally 15 years ago. Is this considered weird? I just assumed at this point that other PDF systems had the same feature instead of people actually printing, signing, and scanning.

Yup, this is a confirmed hoax:

https://gizmodo.com/a-viral-cybertruck-hoax-got-so-big-tesla...

> But her LinkedIn page lists "Deputy General Counsel & Director, Infrastructure & CapEx" as a previous title; her current title is listed as "VP, Legal

Yeah, it seems very unlikely that a legal VP would send a doc out with an outdated title.

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