Elon Musk Chief Nerd's Elaborate $1,000 Troll Scam
Among Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to check out a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - just 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 a company-wide email sent out to workers at USAID telling them not to come into the company's Washington DC headquarters on Monday.
Kliger sent the guideline from a USAID email address he was provided with as part of high-level access to its systems, along 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 out the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I provided up a seven-figure wage to save America.'
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber only' with a $1,000-a-month charge - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it.
However, those who wondered enough to spend the remarkable charge discovered there wasn't even that - the post was entirely blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is among six baby-faced boys with little-to-no government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to sow havoc in the civil service
Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I offered up a seven-figure salary to save America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is completely empty
'Poetically blank, please review your life choices,' one discuss the post read.
Kliger enhanced his elaborate trolling with an unusual voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his registered contact number to the post.
'I simply composed a lovely Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it lags the paywall, akropolistravel.com however I think it will address that concern for you ... it's pretty great,' he said.
The one-minute greeting was a lengthened version of the prank where the owner of the phone pretends to address, but it is in fact tape-recorded.
Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and smfsimple.com having trouble hearing the call, then ultimately exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I don't think that's right.'
The tape-recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.
Despite its name, the Substack was not updated weekly, and only has 2 other posts - both of which are complimentary to read.
Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded weekly, and only has 3 posts
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it
They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet elections - 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 woman and various other misbehaviors.
Kliger's post titled '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 an enthusiastic defense of the previous Fox News host's nomination filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.
Hegseth was narrowly validated by the Senate regardless of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.
Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure task' to join DOGE is also dubious as his personal sector work history didn't include such a role.
His latest task, according to his LinkedIn, accc.rcec.sinica.edu.tw was as a 'senior software application engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing company 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 leading end at $321,000, including perk.
Kliger was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent to workers at USAID telling them not to come into the agency's Washington DC headquarters on Monday
The Berkeley graduate apparently instructed all employees at the firm not to return to Washington head office on Monday
Kliger finished from the University of California, Berkeley, strikez.awardspace.info in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.
Musk last month designated him an unique adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were installed.
The Tesla owner has basically taken control of the OPM, along with the General Services Administration, through his management 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 desire to do work that will affect the future,' it read.
'Whether that indicates establishing software application, investigating system implementation, or operating in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and imagination towards fulfilling the challenges I face.
'In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and attending music performances at Berkeley. Among my preferred pastimes is playing online blitz chess.'
Kliger's father, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, an industrial property company.
Musk last month appointed Kliger a special consultant to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed
Who are Musk's other geeks?
Musk employed a performers of young guys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut costs.
At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced lot taking on business America and longstanding federal government institutions.
According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'specialist' in his field, wiki.insidertoday.org 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 given A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the firm's leading floor with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.
Musk's DOGE has been rapidly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.
These systems keep sensitive data consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.
Elon Musk enlisted a performers of young guys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs
Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.
After widespread criticism about the guys's youth, Musk launched a statement about the consultations.
'Time to confess: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's finest software application engineers remain in fact real,' Musk wrote on X.
Luke Farritor, 23
Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig.
Farritor, dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to start working for trademarketclassifieds.com Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley business owner behind GitHub.
Friedman explained Farritor as 'a nationwide treasure' after his appointment with DOGE was revealed.
He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after utilizing AI to assist analyze a 2,000 years of age file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had been trying, and failing, to solve for centuries.
The charred scroll was thought scorched beyond recognition.
Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig
Edward Coristine, 19
The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.
Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for three months last summertime, after graduating high school.
Little is known about Coristine's function at DOGE, nevertheless he is listed as an 'specialist.'
WIRED cited sources alleging Coristine has been conducting calls with staff in the department and making them 'go over code they had actually written and justify their jobs.'
Employees were supposedly confused by his inclusion in the meetings, and later expressed concerns that they were not properly informed on his identity or function, even during the call.
Coristine's daddy, Charles, is the primary executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a staff member for the brand.
Up until recently, Coristine supposedly utilized a social media deal with named '@EdwardBigBaller.'
The youngest of Musk's elite team 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 given that been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.
He had also formerly interned for Meta and Palantir - who was established by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.
Just 6 years ago, 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 'value the complexity in life'.
" We reside in an age where simpleness rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to specify our identities,' he said.
'This increasing willingness to streamline even the most intricate stories into mind-blowing tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and in the process divides the communities, families, and relationships we treasure.
'What's the solution, you might ask? Seek pain.'
Bobba is another 'professional' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley
Ethan Shaotran, 22
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up 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 lorries.
Musk is famously attempting to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla headquarters.
Shaortran is part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.
He also has a link to Musk, having participated in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his group were runner ups after they utilized xAI's Grok to produce possible actions from X fans to a hypothetical concern.
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for experts. The start-up made 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 reportedly working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capability remains uncertain.
The 24-year-old finished McGill University.
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms
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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power
Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's arrangement.
'It emerged 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 just a ball of worms. You have actually got to basically eliminate 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 posting a symbolic image on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.
At the time, he sent a letter to personnel titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was utilized in Trump's recent email proposing generous lay-off plans
Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an art work of a massive fork standing in the roadway, suggesting it was all connected.
Musk does not hold chosen workplace, however on Monday was officially appointed a 'special civil servant' by the White House.
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