The mystery patron leaving thousands of dollars in tips at restaurants and bars across the country and documenting them on Instagram — in the name of Jesus — was outed by Valleywag as Jack Selby, a former PayPal vice president.

Selby is part of the PayPal Mafia, a group of former employees of the online payment platform who cashed out with an "obscene" amount of money, according to various media reports.

For the past three months, an Instagram account with the username "tipsforjesus" has posted pictures of receipts from eateries, with tip amounts ranging from $500 to $10,000. Many of the receipts, the first of which was posted on Sept. 8, are signed and stamped @tipsforjesus. The mystery tipper's stops included Ann Arbor, Mich., Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Instagram account says: “Doing the Lord’s work, one tip at a time.”

The only clue to the identity of the cardholder was his love of college football. The tips were left on game days in college-town establishments, in states such as Indiana and Michigan. Receipts have included the University of Southern California's slogan, "Fight On!"

The anonymous tipper used an American Express Centurion Card, more commonly known as the Black Card, as payment.

“Servers sometimes are underappreciated in the business, looked down upon … for them to get something nice, especially right before the holiday season, is a really good thing,” restaurant worker Becky Graziano told a CBS station in Los Angeles. Graziano is an employee at the Hungry Cat in Hollywood, where a $1,000 tip was left on a nearly $266 bill.

Selby posted copies of credit card statements on Instagram to confirm payment of the posted tips.

News of the generous tipster comes after reports of servers being slighted by customers, who leave no tip but do leave negative comments.

The owners of a Bridgewater restaurant — where a waitress claimed customers left an anti-gay note in place of a tip — said last week they are checking credit card records to determine whether the incident was a hoax.

Meanwhile, a Red Lobster waitress in Tennessee who claimed in September to have been left a receipt with the N-word and "none" on a tip line, was accused of lying by a customer who denied writing the slur. That patron threatened to sue the franchise, according to ABC News.

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