Good God, that thread's over 100 pages long. Anyone got the Cliff's Notes?
well lauren returns at page 52, and from there things get rollingjonesy paypals her a dollar as proof he'll give her $100 pending a topless pic. he reports back that the name on the account he sent it to was Trey Ratcliff. trey's website is then found, his myspace, and eventually her myspace, which is different than the one she gives to the augmentlauren site, and it says she is a college graduate, not an smu student, and, instead of being single, in a relationship with a guy named will, whom we had seen with her in pictures on trey's site. we then see on trey's myspace that lauren posted a message saying "he went public with his buttocks and made 7 million (lauren has an idea)", presumably indicating this is where the scheme originated. her "secret" myspace is quickly made private/deleted, and her message on trey's myspace is erased. she then posts saying trey is her brother. from that we search "lauren ratcliff" which turns out to be the name of a third grade teacher in the area who went to (edit: southwest texas state university, not smu) and attended high school in plano like laura's "secret" myspace account says she did (edit: upon further examination probably not the same lauren). a texas tech math tutor also bears the same name, but no confirmation there either. later, ufcker dpu2002 tries to post a comment on her blog and is said to be "awaiting review" or something. additionally, someone named "Trey" posts a comment on her blog saying he can't deal with being a part of the fraud anymore and the comment is taken down, though the legitimacy of that is in question.
i'm sure i missed some stuff or ####ed up along the way so feel free to correct me.
edit2: i think, thanks to cash, we can basically conclude (as shane said) that trey is not her brother, she simply said that so it seemed like she was keeping the money in the family. as shown in the myspace message, trey is probably the guy who set up the blog with her, and lauren was helping he and her boyfriend will raise cash to get the john galt gaming company off the ground.