Doubtful as Monolith handed those out. An account would have to be flagged as a Beta account and in Beta submitted X number of bugs. SOE has NO WAY of determining which accounts were Beta, not even the fact that some people have Beta clothing. Beta clothing was release as tradable and later made to be non-tradable, which is why no dev or csr was ever willing to provide my main with the beta clothes i recycles long ago.
SOE people could just look at the fact that EVERY alt I (or any Beta account) create (s) automatically gets Beta gear in my/thier inventory.
So this "new" person could be a new player with a Beta account that submitted X number of bugs. If he was Beta, he's not exactly new, he or she would be returning. If he is new, then he got an old/ returning account.