Not a bad list, but is he forgetting anything? Maybe find out if they’re from EA? I feel like there are a few reformed members here who could add to this 
1. Ask for pictures (AKA The SR20 Rule)
Back when I was telling my tall tales of owning unique cars (a used BMW 3 Series? <i>WHY</i>???), we lived in a different time. Taylor Swift was still singing national anthems to 76ers fans who showed up solely to enjoy three-dollar beer night. OutKast had not yet told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture. John Kerry had not completed the full metamorphosis from old rich U.S. senator to old rich U.S. presidential candidate. And most importantly, there were no camera phones. In fact, there were barely even digital cameras. This was the technological dark ages, back when people like my parents still went into car dealers and asked: <i>Does it have a tape deck?</i> These days, lying on the Internet is a lot harder than it was before, because everyone has a camera on them at all times. And if you don't believe something that someone says, you are well within your rights to ask them to document it with a few photographs. Here's a pro tip: the moment someone says "my camera isn't working right now," they're lying, and you can immediately assume they're a basement-dwelling middle-schooler. *** <b>[B]2. Pay attention to details. </b>[/B] Even if someone <i>does</i> provide photographic proof of their exploits, they aren't necessarily telling the truth – and there are a lot of great websites available these days that can assist you in getting to the bottom of any seemingly ludicrous claim. For instance: if someone posts a photo, use [a reverse Google Image search](https://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&gws_rd=ssl) to find out if the picture came from somewhere else on the Internet. Did someone claim they bought a new car? Go to [LicensePlates.cc](http://www.licenseplates.cc), which tracks all the most recently issued plates across every North American jurisdiction. This can be very helpful in determining exactly <i>when</i> a car was purchased, should the owner claim it's "brand-new." *** <b>[B]3. Don't make assumptions.</b>[/B] People tend to believe a lot more of what you say if you use proper grammar, correct spelling, and accurate punctuation. But there's a problem with judging people based on their writing style, namely: any 14-year-old who has taken a few English classes can look smart on the Internet. Whereas I've met a wide range of well-educated professionals – people who went to schools like Brown and argue about whether or not Westhampton really "counts" as a Hampton – who still use an apostrophe in normal plural words, as in: <i>We don't really like any of the nanny's we found on the East Side.</i> As a result, it's important that you stay skeptical of people making ludicrous claims, regardless of how presentable — or stupid — they seem. After all: if they use correct grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc., they could be slick liars who know exactly what to say, and how to say it. But if they don't, it isn't necessarily a red flag: they may just be idiots. *** <b>[B]4. Meet up. </b>[/B] Back when I was lying on the automotive forum, it was considered tremendously sketchy to meet up with anyone you found on the Internet. In fact, back then, there were only two types of online meetups: people who were paying for sex, and people who had gotten so pissed off in an AOL chatroom that they decided to meet in a public park to fight each other. These days, things have changed – so much that virtually anyone who spends any time on car forums probably also attends Cars and Coffee, and shows up at 4 a.m. to get a good spot, and posts photos on Instagram of how their local Ford Focus club managed to take up an entire row of parking, and Tweets pictures of the Focus Nation rollin' together at Dunkin Donuts, and posts a Vine of their new exhaust, which is really just their previous exhaust with a hole in it, and after a while you maybe <i>wish </i>these people were lying, because that would be way better than the truth. In fact, here in 2015, meeting up through the Internet is so common that I know people who have made friends, started relationships, even become <i>engaged</i> following their online rendezvous. And I'd say that I only disapprove of two, maybe three of these relationships, which is a far better proportion than people I know who met up at a random bar where the relationship began with a line like: <i>"Hey, are you a model?"</i>