I swear that in the unlikely event of ever actually getting contacted by a genuine celeb, my first reaction would probably be along the lines of "Piss off, scammer" because I've seen so much of this crap.

Yeah, when I first heard the story it didn't ring true to me at all that Stephen Amell would be hiring writers himself, and while travelling through Europe at that. But given that my ex continues to this day to tweet actors about getting cast in the shows, which they also would have no say over, I think he learned nothing from the experience (which got to the point where he thought Stephen Amell was sending him a package of a script, a contract and diamonds. Oooo...kay. It was supposedly stuck in Thailand waiting for an excessive amount of money to release it, and eventually I managed to stop him from asking his parents for a loan, although I don't think they would have paid it. But for a while even after blocking the contact details, he still talked afterwards about how maybe he would have written that year's crossover episode. It was a very long saga.) Honestly I have washed my hands of the situation, if he continues to believe these impossible things and to think I just don't want him to succeed rather than that I was trying to save from from getting scammed, then there's no more I can do.