Which do you think is the likelier scenario? That somebody was targeting a nobody who wasn’t even on anyone’s radar sixteen years ago, or that his past came back to bite him in the backside? You can question the timing of this, but you can’t take shots at someone without ammunition.
But how would they get all of the reported details which correlate to his personal life? And why would anyone have ben trying to impersonate him back in 2008?
According to the story, he used his full name on a forum called Nude Africa, along with an email he’s used on other sites for a long time. He’s said numerous things under his online moniker that correlate with details of his own life.