But what about someone else? Initially, it may seem to make more sense to stiff Torswats, so that he ends up naming Patrick and humiliating him. But it's purely result-oriented thinking. You'd think it's obvious he would fall for it and expose him because that's what happened but is it actually the logical sequence of events? First you have to plan on Torswats actually agreeing to a scheme where you don't pay upfront, then you have to hope he actually bothers to look up the phone number to verify who it is (not even getting in to how you would get that number past 2FA without Pat, who responds to fucking everything, not noticing this), then you have to hope he buys it (worth noting that Torswats is, so he says, the person who brings up Pat's identity), then you have to plan on stiffing him.
And once you do this, you then have to hope that a person, who is incentivised to keep as low a profile as possible, would publicly call out the real Patrick and then you have to hope that anybody would take the word of someone who claims to be a swatter at face value (as we all know, nobody has ever pretended to be a superhackerswatter online for attention).
If the Vice article, which you could not have planned for, didn't write about Torswats, does anyone really think people would know about all this? Would anyone be snooping around their telegram to look for Pat? Would anyone even admit it if they did see it, given how they might be implicated? Surely you'd assume either they wanted to swat someone, or they were the person looking to frame Pat.
