Elon Musk Chief Nerd’s Elaborate $1,000 Troll Scam

Among Elon Musk’s geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE – only to discover the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced kids with little-to-no government experience handpicked by the ‘First Buddy’ to sow havoc in the civil service.

He was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent to staff members at USAID informing them not to come into the firm’s Washington DC head office on Monday.

Kliger sent the guideline from a USAID email address he was supplied with as part of top-level access to its systems, together with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the company’s IT system, developing security, and classified materials, and began dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: ‘Why DOGE. Why I offered up a seven-figure income to conserve America.’

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was ‘customer just’ with a $1,000-a-month charge – or $10,000 for a whole year – to access a single word of it.

However, those who were curious enough to cough up the remarkable fee found there wasn’t even that – the post was entirely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of 6 baby-faced boys with little-to-no government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to plant havoc in the civil service

Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: ‘Why DOGE. Why I offered up a seven-figure wage to save America’. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is totally empty

‘Poetically blank, please reassess your life options,’ one discuss the post read.

Kliger enhanced his fancy trolling with an unusual voicemail greeting that pointed anyone who called his authorized telephone number to the post.

‘I just composed a stunning Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you simply go there, it lags the paywall, however I think it will answer that question for you … it’s respectable,’ he said.

The one-minute welcoming was a lengthened version of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to respond to, however it is really tape-recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having problem hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, ‘They said what? No, no, I don’t believe that’s right.’

The tape-recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.

Despite its name, wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de the Substack was not updated weekly, and only has two other posts – both of which are totally free to read.

Despite its name, Kliger’s Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has three posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was ‘subscriber just’ with a $1,000-a-month charge – or $10,000 for a whole year – to access a single word of it

They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump’s most questionable cabinet Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general however withdrew after a damning House report found he paid for sex with 17-year-old lady and many other misbehaviors.

Kliger’s post entitled ‘The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies’ portrayed Gaetz as an innocent victim who was ‘framed’.

His other post, ‘Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears’, was a passionate defense of the previous Fox News host’s election filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was directly verified by the Senate in spite of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.

Kliger’s claim that he left a ‘seven-figure task’ to sign up with DOGE is also suspicious as his personal sector work history didn’t consist of such a role.

His newest job, according to his LinkedIn, was as a ‘senior software application engineer’ at Databricks, a cloud computing firm in San Francisco, from May 2020 to last month.

Salaries for that position at Databricks vary from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the top end at $321,000, consisting of benefit.

Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent out to employees at USAID telling them not to come into the agency’s Washington DC headquarters on Monday

The Berkeley graduate supposedly advised all employees at the agency not to return to Washington headquarters on Monday

Kliger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 – well before Musk’s takeover in 2022.

Musk last month selected him an unique consultant to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed.

The Tesla owner has basically taken control of the OPM, together with the General Services Administration, through his leadership of DOGE.

Kliger’s now-deleted Github from his time at Berkeley claims he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, a black belt very first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.

‘I want to do work that will affect the future,’ it read.

‘Whether that implies developing software, looking into system deployment, or working in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and imagination towards meeting the difficulties I face.

‘In my extra time, I delight in playing the piano and clarinet and participating in music concerts at Berkeley. Among my favorite pastimes is playing online blitz chess.’

Kliger’s daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a business realty firm.

Musk last month selected Kliger a special adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up

Who are Musk’s other nerds?

Musk employed a troupe of young men aged 19 to 25 – three of whom are thought to still remain in college – to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut expenses.

At just 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch handling corporate America and longstanding federal government organizations.

According to WIRED, he’s been called an ‘specialist’ in his field, and specifics about his function aren’t yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, together with Coristine, have actually reportedly been approved A-suite level clearance for their work, suggesting they can work out of the company’s leading flooring with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.

Musk’s DOGE has been quickly growing in power and broadening its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.

These systems store sensitive data including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk employed a performers of young guys aged 19 to 25 – 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college – to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut costs

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has actually been named for his role with DOGE, which is supposedly on a ‘volunteer’ basis at this phase.

After prevalent criticism about the males’s youth, Musk launched a declaration about the visits.

‘Time to confess: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world’s best software application engineers remain in truth real,’ Musk composed on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk currently, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig.

Farritor, left of the University of Nebraska in order to start working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.

Friedman explained Farritor as ‘a nationwide treasure’ after his consultation with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after using AI technology to help understand a 2,000 years of age document – part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii – which researchers had actually been trying, and failing, to resolve for centuries.

The charred scroll was believed burnt beyond acknowledgment.

Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk currently, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig

Edward Coristine, 19

The youngest of Musk’s elite squad is simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.

Coristine apparently interned at Musk’s Neuralink for three months last summertime, after graduating high school.

Little is learnt about Coristine’s role at DOGE, however he is listed as an ‘specialist.’

WIRED cited sources declaring Coristine has been conducting calls with personnel in the department and making them ‘discuss code they had actually composed and justify their tasks.’

Employees were presumably confused by his inclusion in the meetings, and bbarlock.com later on revealed issues that they were not correctly informed on his identity or function, even throughout the call.

Coristine’s father, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as an employee for the brand name.

Up till just recently, Coristine reportedly used a social networks manage named ‘@EdwardBigBaller.’

The youngest of Musk’s elite squad is simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston

Akash Bobba, 21

Bobba is another ‘professional’ within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

According to a former LinkedIn account, which has actually since been erased, Bobba was a financial investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

He had also previously interned for Meta and Palantir – who was founded by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.

Just six years back, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional design United Nations. His father is a scholastic in computer technology.

Bobba spoke at his graduation event from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, informing his schoolmates to ‘appreciate the complexity in life’.

” We live in an age where simplicity rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to define our identities,’ he said.

‘This increasing willingness to simplify even the most complex narratives into marvelous bits, perpetuates false information and at the same time divides the communities, households, and relationships we value.

‘What’s the option, you might ask? Seek pain.’

Bobba is another ‘expert’ within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran founded Energize AI – a scheduling assistant for specialists. The startup earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.

The 22-year-old said in September he was a senior at Harvard University, and was working in the school’s computing lab on self-governing automobiles.

Musk is notoriously attempting to develop self-driving cars and trucks at his Tesla head office.

Shaortran is part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.

He likewise has a link to Musk, having actually taken part in his xAI ‘hackathon’. He and his group were runner ups after they utilized xAI’s Grok to produce plausible actions from X fans to a hypothetical question.

Shaortran established Energize AI – a scheduling assistant for professionals. The startup earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023

Gautier Cole Killian, 24

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms.

Now, he is apparently working as a ‘volunteer’ with DOGE, although in what capability remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old graduated McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms

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Musk’s DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading an amazing civilian review of the federal government with Trump’s arrangement.

‘It ended up being obvious that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,’ Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.

‘What we have is simply a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.’

Musk recently hinted he was also the mastermind behind Trump’s choice to purge federal staff members by publishing a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.

At the time, he sent a letter to personnel entitled: ‘A Fork in the Road.’ The same title was used in Trump’s current email proposing generous lay-off plans

Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an artwork of a huge fork standing in the road, suggesting it was all linked.

Musk does not hold chosen workplace, however on Monday was formally designated a ‘special civil servant’ by the White House.

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