Scott Johnson

And ultimately that's where I found him.

And, and then what proceeded was this series of interactions that I had with him.

that ultimately went on for weeks and weeks.

And that's when I really started to get a closer look at his personality and the complexity that we mentioned earlier, that this was a really interesting person.

And he was a really interesting person, very disturbed and troubling, but certainly very interesting.

I could be misreading it, but... Yeah, I mean, so at that point, yeah, there'd been a lot of stories about him.

I'd written about him.

Other journalists in the States had written about him, in the UK.

The FBI, by that point, had opened an investigation and they had created what they called a portal, which was essentially a website where they...

solicited testimonials from victims from around the world who had encountered this guy.

And they asked for relevant details, you know, how, when, when were you scammed?

How much money did you lose?

Where did you go?

What happened?

You know, do you have any emails or supporting documents to, to, to, to help us?

And so they, they had an entire

digital infrastructure in place to help build their case because there were victims from all around the world.

I later figured it out.

There were every single continent on the planet except Antarctica.

There were victims from everywhere.