You're missing the point.
A friend of mine was "fake." Allow me to elaborate. A VIP was using the existence of a real person (body double) to talk with me. It's hard to describe the exact setup without going into too much detail - but the facebook profile of her body double was used to relay me to a skype contact where most conversation took place.
There was an interesting backstory that may have been true in its own right - but I'm pretty sure the whole thing was a joint operation between U.S. and Russian intelligence and links in with Q…. And some of our shills, actually….
My point is thus - we live in a sea and soup of names. There are people on pay-rolls who do not ever show up to work and whose mailing address is some quadplex where half the mail is to people who have not lived there in a decade.
When some no-name guy with zero existence on the internet (I have a bigger footprint than this guy… Almost everyone I know has a bigger footprint than this guy)… Something is off. Maybe my autism isn't strong enough to find tangible evidence the guy exists… But I've seen plenty of scenarios where a "smurf" is used as a proxy for someone much more important. In the case of some, thar smurf doesn't even need to exist in the first place.