It worked, getting the attention of Rogen and Goldberg’s lawyers, who immediately issued a cease and desist requesting Witz and Spektor stop sending out a screenplay under the guise of Rogen and Goldberg’s production company, Point Grey.
They even named their characters after Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, James Franco and Aziz Ansari.
Things escalate from there (significantly) and before he knows it, he’s become a getaway driver for the Jewish mafia.
Leaving the rest of the script intact, they replaced the title page with a new page crediting the story to Rogen and Goldberg, hoping that would get it more traction.