Scott Johnson

Let's figure this out.

I don't know where this is.

It could be anywhere.

What do you think?

Do you think he's from the UK?

Maybe he knows something.

So he spends a little time on it.

And in this very serendipitous turn of events, he gets back to me and he says, I think I know where he is.

And what had happened is he'd looked at all these screenshots I sent him and he was from Manchester, this guy.

And in one little corner of one of the screenshots, he saw this kind of little tiny bit of almost like a little mini city park, not even a big park, but just like a patch of grass, basically, where there was a bench and there was some buildings that were positioned in relation to the bench, then this patch of grass.

And he said, I recognize that.

I recognize that spot.

And I said, what do you mean you recognize it?

He said, yeah.

He said, I worked across the street in that building for like eight years when I was younger.

And the trick was that because this guy, the scammer, was filming himself with a camera, everything was inverted.

Everything was reversed.

So it wasn't immediately clear what was what, but this guy spent some time with the images and he realized that

exactly where it was in the city.

And then he pulled up a Google Maps image of the city and positioned it in such a way that it would mirror the perspective that you saw in the screenshots that I had taken and just doing a bunch of kind of reverse engineering of these images.