It's totally ok that you wouldn't have had the same gut feeling — but I absolutely did. I wrote that because it seemed like the binder was unnecessary information posed specifically in the photo to try to gain my trust. I think that's largely because the binder was unnecessary information posed specifically in the photo to try to gain my trust.

Bonus trivia I didn't mention: if you look at the invoice preceding the one in the binder, it has the logo for the 1992 (!) Barcelona Olympics at the top. A real weird thing to put in your 'Bills 2000 — 2010' binder! I do think this binder is totally real, but should actually be labelled 'My Forged Invoices' ;)

> I wrote that because it seemed like the binder was unnecessary information posed specifically in the photo to try to gain my trust

As opposed to just being something he grabbed to use as a quick kind of table? I mean out of the two possibilities of just quickly throwing something on the couch to use as a platform to take a photo or purposely trying to set up a staged scene to look 'casual', I think Occam would say the first is significantly more likely.

Nothing wrong with having suspicions or gut feelings, but this just seemed a stretch too far to me personally. Nice article though!

Seems ok to me. Just a stream of pure intuition that ended up being totally correct.

Well, the base claim was sure, not anything regarding the staging of photos though.

I'd also ask how come a single binder would suffice for 10 years of bills.

But in the end he was right

About the base claim sure, not about anything regarding the staging of photos though.