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The website is already displaying millions of dollars in payments to successful crypto sleuths.

On YouTube, would-be sleuths dissected the footage and offered their conclusions.

Now small armies of amateur Internet sleuths and movie fans have joined the fray, turning gripes and teapot tempests into social media scandals.

"Screen sleuths of the secret service thriller or detective novel appeal to the uninitiated, but in actual practice there is little glamour and much monotony in such a calling as 'observation'."

Online sleuths are sharing video and other purported evidence on social media platforms.