By day, Justin Payne is a mason in the suburbs of Toronto.

Every hour that is not going to work, however, spends attached to the phone, checking online profiles on which pretends to be a boy or a girl.
The 28 year old is considered a pedophile hunter, and operates on three different accounts dating sites.
According to him, the just a few minutes online because those profiles, all relating to children aged between nine and 13 years, are inundated with messages from adult men.
"I will just drop the bomb.
I say, 'I have nine, almost ten, is a problem for you?'
90 percent answered no, "says Payne.
The conversation, he says, veers rapidly on sex: men who contact him inform on her virginity and ask him nude photos.
The images used by Payne (old photos of children of friends) are all the children dressed, but that does not seem to stop people who contact him.
"They start with the photos bare chest, and then pass those penis," she explains.
In support of his claim, on the mobile screen scrolls some of the images received.
We are on his car, a Kia Spectra that has seen better days.
Inside it holds all of the trade-cable tools, eyeglasses with hidden camera, a laptop with a soundboard that allows you to send voice messages so the voice of a child.
Payne has brown hair, brown eyes and an olive complexion.
When I meet him wearing a baseball cap backwards, a sweatshirt, shorts and safety shoes, all covered with lime and cement stains.
The tattoo in Chinese characters he has on his right bicep reads "Peace, love, loyalty."
It is tall and muscular, but did not look threatening.
He has a soft voice, and smoking a cigarette after cigarette to calm anxiety.
In short, it is difficult to imagine facing the men who contact him, but more or less once a week makes an appointment to one of them and then record the face to face.
They usually meet them to see if I rely on that, "he says.
For his meetings Payne choose public places but deserts, such as supermarket car parks after closing time, and armed of sheets printed conversations and a video camera, openly addresses the primer.
After that publishes everything on Facebook or YouTube, giving it so dough to its thousands of followers.
(On his YouTube channel, Public Payne also lighter video :)
From the parking lot of a North York mall, it shows me a palace.
He tells me that there lives a 51 year old who was convinced that Payne was a ten year old boy named Christopher.
It shows me one of their conversations, in which the man offered him oral sex, send pictures of your penis and admits he already had relations with a 14 year old.
During the video, Payne showed him a photo of the "Christopher" and urges him: "So, excite you see this stuff?
The man asks repeatedly apologizes and promises not to do it again.
Payne says: "Yes, but that does not change shit.
Not mica back all right.
Nightmares every night, years of therapy, ruined relationships forever. "
At the end of the movie, man, almost in tears, she asks Payne of "mercy."
It reports that often ends well.
Usually Payne complaint cases to the police, but this adds bitterly, not enough to start the investigation.
He is convinced that the man involved in one of the last cases of sexual violence against minors in the city is just one of those who had taken on video.
So people are happy when they know that there are people like me, because otherwise it is as if the rules do not exist. "
But the rules are there, says Kim Gross agent of the department of child abuse by Toronto police: the involvement of untrained could jeopardize the whole process of investigation and evidence collection needed to formulate the accusation.
In practice, he says Gross, the pedophiles hunters who operate independently discover the cards on the table, and every time one is exposed publicly on the internet, the others are made aware of the existence of these techniques.
"And what happens if we scare them to the point that the suspects are not captured?"
When one of the 17 agents employed by Gross is engaged in an undercover operation, it must act with the utmost discretion not to evade the legal protocols.
For example, if a police officer encourages a person to commit an offense that otherwise would not commit, his action is considered a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Canada.
Despite the good intentions of Payne, the danger to frustrate investigations and contravening the protocols is one of the reasons why Gross advises against vigilantism.
Although the work would lead to a Payne adds Gross arrest, a good lawyer could "tear him apart" in court, sending upstream the entire case.
As explained by the lawyer Arun Maini, the Payne actions have a whole range of potential legal implications and beyond.
Spreading publicly the identity of a person could be a violation of privacy, and Payne same risk a libel complaint (so far it has never happened, but received several death threats).
It might have trouble even if the other side of the screen there was an undercover cop.
As for movies Payne, use them to conclude a shutdown "would be problematic, not being evidence gathered by the police ... During the trial could not be accepted as 'abuse of process'."
To all this, continues Maini, if the public were to recognize Payne of one of the alleged pedophile, would be added the threat of violence and lynching.
Last year, also in Toronto, Cliff Ford was welcomed as a hero when he pretended to be his daughter to gather information on the man that contacted online.
At the time, Ford had said his first instinct was to show up at the man's house and raze it to the ground.
But he managed to keep control and turned to the authorities, allowing the man sentenced to 22 years in prison.
In the UK many men accused of pedophilia were beaten, have received death threats, suffered lynchings and so he fled to the bush, even in the absence of any formal charges.
"It is difficult to erase what is put on the Internet," says Maini.
In the case of North York 51 year old, the man's family have contacted Payne to tell him that his accusations were groundless.
But the video is still online.
When I asked him if he was afraid of making false accusations, Payne said she is very precise archiving of all the evidence in his computer.
It seems that little amounts of its safety, although his mother, he says, is very concerned by the fact that it is only in its missions.
"Some are potentially dangerous.
No one knows who will be faced. "
The rear seat of Payne machine.
And fears are not without foundation.
Payne tries to avoid physical contact during comparisons, but he happens to chase suspects.
Although it is clear that Payne feels almost a 'executioner' acting for the public good, it is difficult to see what reasons push him to devote most of his time chatting with potential pedophiles.
Growing up "poor to suck" with his parents and two older brothers in a trailer park in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Payne says he suffered from depression and anxiety.
He always ended in a few fights, and sometimes the police went looking for him at home.
As a teenager, he began to cut and had attempted suicide twice-once by hanging and going overdosed on medication for his mother's arthritis.
He says he lost his virginity at age 14, when a friend of the mother, in her forties, had slipped into her room after a party.
At 18, Payne moved to Ontario with her mother and a brother.
He says he was inspired by the reality TV series To Catch A Predator, where Chris Hansen and his team posing as teenagers to find online sexual predators.
A year and a half ago, Payne decided to try it himself, and when he posted the video online reactions have been extremely positive.
"They tell me, 'Do not stop, it continues,' and I need to keep going."
Payne is a bit 'a lone wolf.
It is rare to find to do binge-then he says that the emotional hangover is too powerful-and suffers from social anxiety crisis so deep that often seeks to test his strength going to sit alone in a crowded shopping mall, only to prove to himself that he can do it.
Paradoxically, wearing T-shirts online with your name and your face frequently and post videos that have nothing to do with hunting down pedophiles.
Each post has hundreds, if not thousands, of like.
He tells me that he wanted to be an actor.
For a man who describes himself as "out of touch" for most of the time, it seems that the interest to the attention.
"Although I am an anxious person, I like to show off," he admits.
"I feel more calm in the chaos."
In any case, it does not seem to want to stop.
He has already faced hundreds of men and has amassed a following that will always idolizes more at his every move.
Among his fans is Alycha Reda, 26, who was raped as a teenager in Kingston, Ontario, Mark Bedford.
Bedford was jailed in 2008 for online sexual harassment of hundreds of young girls.
Reda, today roams the Ontario and Alberta schools to share his story.
Payne says support for the results of a standard legal procedure can be disappointing.
"It's not that turns beating pedophile simply puts them on camera," he says.
"Let's talk about pedophiles 20-30 per month.
The police takes ever so many?
The inspector Gross told VICE that the great interest that Payne has attracted not surprising.
"The number of people who have a perverted interest in children, online, is breathtaking.
If I put my agents to chat with them, we would not have a free moment. "
While he is interested that the pedophile is ashamed of himself, the other tries to Payne sensiblizzare on internet dangers to children.
"I want parents caghino below," he says.
"The most important thing is that those who think that such things 'do not happen here' understand that it is not."
This is his goal, even at the expense of what it may mean for his mental health.
Hundreds of victims of harassment who contact him, including a girl who was raped by her father.
"Often I feel bad physically," he says, adding that it is not able to have a relationship with a woman because "they are always taken to think about the last person I talked to the man, or with whom I meet."
"I thought, at times, to give up," he adds.
"But then I think of all the people who deluderei."

From Vice