i only just found out this happened and... tricking people like that is like. really gross
death is a really, realy serious thing. this is just not a thing that you should do. it IS really manipulative
there are many much better and more reasonable ways to get sympathy from people
mostly that the claims about the specific death circumstance were the kind of thing that would have been headline news, yet i couldn't find anything in that regard, especially in the area that his IP tracked to
i then pressed him a bit, he gave me an article that didn't even match his story, and that was the clincher