 Over on the World Service's stats show, more or less, Tom Coles started dissecting this story, and the grim just gets grimmer. Cindy's Jim, who claimed to be a lonely man living in Los Angeles, wasn't. Jimmy is not a lonely Chinese man in LA. He doesn't actually exist at all. His text messages and phone calls are likely to have been produced by workers in so-called scam compounds in Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.