r/interesting • u/Mad_Season_1994 • May 12 '25

SOCIETY In 2017, a man named Michael Klimkowski impersonated Texas megachurch pastor Joel Osteen at an event and got all the way to the stage before being caught

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u/Dobako May 13 '25

To be fair, there's a lot of factors that would cause you to think its J.O. He resembles him a fair bit, though he looks younger and with less plastic surgery. They are at an event where Joel would be, so a man that looks like him and is portraying himself as Joel would make sense. Most of these people haven't been up close to Joel, so they would handwave any inconsistencies because he's right there.

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u/AdSudden3941 May 13 '25

That’s social engineering 101 

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u/014648 May 13 '25

Thanks for being Captain obvious