Does Sarah V. Jones exist really?

Or is “Sarah V. Jones” a pseudonym used by John Maloney to make his gullible prospects and clients believe that he has a personal assistant and to artificially generate discussions on his crappy e-mailing discussion list?

Take a look at this exchange of e-mails between the two entities (excerpted from their e-mailing list discussion)…

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From the mysterious and ethereal “Sarah V. Jones”:

Subject: Pensions & Investments article
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:13:55 -0400
From: Sarah V. Jones <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>

Greetings –

Noteworthy article – just published by Pensions and Investments.

And now the reply from John Maloney:

Subject: The Science of Success – Surowiecki
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:16:21 -0700
From: John Maloney ( XXXXXXXXXXX ) <XXXXXXXXXXXXX>
Organization: John T Maloney

Hi – Noteworthy article. -j

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2007/07/09/070709ta_talk_surowiecki

The same language mannerism…

Let’s create a prediction market on Inkling Markets on whether, one day, the truth is out of the bottle, and evidence is brought before us that John Maloney and “Sarah V. Jones” are the same single entity —John Maloney himself. I’m long, of course.

Thanks to Deep Throat for the tip.

UPDATE: Another Deep Throat tells me that he has indeed received phone calls from a “Sarah”, but this second Deep Throat suspects too that John Maloney might be using a second e-mail account established as “Sarah V. Jones”. So, maybe the prediction market should focus on whether John Maloney uses a pseudonym to post on his e-mailing discussion list.

DEVELOPING…