Anyway, I agree with you that there are a lot of made-up stories on the forum, but that doesn't surprise me at all - some people are willing to do absolutely anything for a few $ more.
I refuse to believe this story. As far as I am concerned, this was an attempt to register a new account and try to build it up over time with an eventual hope of enrolling it in campaigns.
~snip~You can refuse to believe in something as much as you want - maybe visit the Reputation board and see how many users have been proven to have alt accounts (which they haven't publicly announced), and have been using them for signature/bounty campaigns for years. Just remember the one who was hidden in the CM campaign for years with as many as three accounts and no one discovered him the whole time.