I believe him too. He seemed genuine, I've seen videos of his before and he always seemed genuine, and he did seem afraid. Also, the conversations were too natural in my opinion, to be faked. They included too much confusion/misunderstandings, lapses where responses to one question came after other questions had been asked - that kind of step response thing you get sometimes when one person is replying as the other is still typing, as in, it's not like I say something, then you say something. Fake conversations almost always follow the Me: say something You: respond.ask Me: respond. You: response. etc. Natural conversations by text more often get kind of out of sync, like theirs did sometimes in these messages.