There's a couple different versions of my role in the whole Evelys debacle going around, so I'll go ahead and try to clear it up:
Evelys and I have been friends (internet only) since about 2009. We chatted through gmail, mostly on Sunday's during football season. I had always been suspicious of Evelys due to his posting style, sports fanaticism (especially for baseball stats...I mean wtf?), and love of single player RPG's. Also Evelys was conveniently deaf, and couldn't do a voice confirmation because of that. She had contracted some infection that took out both of her ears and nearly killed her. She also had cancer 3 times and told me all kinds of other crazy stories (I never heard the rape one, and I never saw that post back on FoHguild...I only look at threads in the General section every so often). Genjiro and I used to make jokes about it all of the time, actually, but lacking any solid proof, that's all we could do.
Anyway, I got laid off from my job at a large tech corporation in May 2011. Evelys had been at Apple for about 6 months at this point, so I asked for some help getting my resume around and getting an interview. Evelys said np and asked me to send my resume to an email other than the Gmail account, as she/he would be able to access that email from work, while Gmail was blocked. Np, I sent it along.
About a year later (I think it was May 2012), I was sending an email to a friend whose first name starts with the same two letters of Evelys' actual RL name. I type these letters into the send field, and two names came up; my friend's and Evelys'...but it didn't say "Jill" it said "A man's name (gonna leave the name out...other people are throwing a name out all over the place so whatever)." I wasn't too shocked, but I did go ahead and ask Evelys about it. "Why does your email say '(a man's name)' on it?" Evelys came back with, "Oh, that's my twin brother." "Orly?" "I'm really busy with work right now, ttyl." (We wouldn't have another chat that lasted more than 2 minutes until the day Morenetz went up, so he was basically gone from chat for 6+ months).
Later on (maybe that night...either May or June of this year), I was chatting with Genjiro and I brought this up. I went ahead and did a search for "(Evelys' man name)" on Facebook, and was able to find him using the name + his current city. Amazingly, his FB was wide open. I could see his hometown (which he had told me about...we're both from Southern California), his current city (known to me through our chats), and about 10 years worth of work history (which he talks about all the time...anyone who knows him from the boards would be able to recognize it...it was to a T...specific companies and cities, all over the US). It was obviously Evelys, and Evelys was obviously a dude.
Genjiro and I Rolf'd for a bit, and I brought Ham n' Cheese in on it too. Ham also knows Evelys pretty well from FoHguild and from our various Fantasy Football Leagues, so I wanted to bring in a 2nd "knowledgeable" opinion. Ham concurred, and did some googling around a bit and found some pretty hilarious shit. Evelys had been running this delusion for a long ass time. I can't find the links anymore, but I think Ham might have saved them.
Ham wanted me to expose him, but I wasn't sure. He made promises of internet heroism on the scale of Erronius, but I didn't really see the point. Evelys and I had never had any issues, and he was a pretty small player as far as the forum went. He posted in the political thread and the sports forum, for all I knew, and it just didn't seem worth it. Had there been some drama surrounding him (that I knew about), or some bullshit between us going on, I might have thought differently. I did, however, PM Requiem (somewhat ironic) at the time, asking him about the legality of exposing him. This was right around the time of "Citten! This is your life!" and I wasn't sure what was kosher or not, so I asked Req. Req never got back to me. The indecision is also what kept me from confronting Evelys with it (after the initial "wtf?" chat we had). I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, and Evelys was never on gmail anymore, so it eventually slipped my mind. This is when I told LadyVex and Grimmlokk about him while we were playing D3, though.
So nothing else happened between about June and November 30th. Evelys IM'd me on Gmail and told me about Morenetz. As soon as it was clear that Morenetz was for real, and that Evelys was the new Moses, I decided to tell Tuco everything I knew. This was to give him a heads-up that he should try to work out a contingency plan in case anyone did expose Evelys. Unfortunately this shit all cratered way sooner than we ever expected. You guys know what happened from here.
Anyway, I learned a few lessons in this. First is that I should have confronted Evelys more directly as soon as I figured the shit out. Second is that, failing #1, I should have talked to him before Morenetz launched, as this has been total bullshit. Had he come clean from the launch of Morenetz, none of the bullshit would have gone down and today wouldn't have happened. Third is that I probably should have just exposed him from the start and cashed in on my +internet payday.
If anything isn't clear, feel free to ask. I won't give out any of Evelys' personal info, though...sorry.
Edit: To clear up the Requiem part, I never told him who it was. I was vague about it. Requiem did not know that Evelys was a guy (at least he never heard it from me).