The sweet revenge in this all is that the job poster will likely spend $120 ten times over churning through under-qualified programmers who think they can get the job done based on his description :)
It should not be horribly difficult to build minimally conversational AI's, arm them with names and e-mail addresses and let them address the problem by themselves.
It will be educational for the guy who wanted to pay $120 ;-)
It will be educational for the guy who wanted to pay $120 ;-)