The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations
Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.
Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.
that's basically the story we were talking about ghosts and eventually he decided because "everything you can conceive of is real" ghosts are real in the metaverse. I then attempted to explain to him what reality is
Terminal stage idealism.
Invisible pink unicorns are real because I just brought them up. I just put one into your room. Problem?
Do you take commissions?
They have to be compliant with
standards. 
That's just a plotline in Digimon: CyberSleuth.