You would be accusing him of brilliance then. This guy is not making bank, but I give him an A for effort. He would need to be smart enough to look dumb enough to seem smart enough yet appear too dumb to lie, but really being too dumb to have a motive to make it up. Its a pretty elaborate lie that really isn't that good of a lie. If someone was going to make this up, they would have done a much better job, and it would have been a much bigger lie/story.