CWPS

One particularly memorable ID occurred the night before CWPS’s launch in August, as Luther was searching for a sample image for the next day’s demo.

From there, the program cross-references the photo with the other images in CWPS’s growing database.

“The beauty of CWPS,” he says, “is that the more people use it, the more information gets added, leading to more identifications—it’s a virtuous cycle.”

CWPs — Ludo Lefebvre, Walter Manzke, and Jeremy Fox were among their ranks — are presumably OK with underachieving, because they know that stardom waits in the wings.

In parts of the UK like Scotland, where CWPs are likely to be triggered three or four times a year, some pensioners could be missing out on up to £100 worth of payments over the winter.