Beware Of Fake NFL Players
As if the 49ers haven’t have enough tough breaks lately their only healthy WR turns out to be a scam.
A dude pretended to be a 49ers Wide Receiver as a social media scam and managed to defraud multiple women out of 1.3 million dollars.
Honestly, for anyone who knows ball, his fraud was pretty clear. He would mimic the kinds of posts NFL players make. Pictures of himself training, working, catching passes. He’d have images of himself living the lifestyle. To anyone just throwing a glance his way or to anyone not into the sport, he could pass.
To you and me he is obvious. He’s in good shape, but not NFL shape. The videos of him arm-catching passes do not show a level of NFL skill. NFL players don’t walk around taking pictures in public in their NFL gear. He bought a quality 49ers helmet at some point and that seemed to be his key to looking the part.
Of course, we are football nerds. We can spot the fake. It’s like how anyone who spends a lot of time online can spot AI slop with relative ease but your boomer mom can’t. However, as a PSA, NFL players are very easy to confirm. Mina Kimes pointed this out, but you can just… Google player names. ESPN and dozens of other databases have extensive records of every athlete to ever make a team and all their stats. A simple check will confirm.
Note: do not trust the AI overview that Google has added, because that thing sucks ass and is wrong all the time. It said Love was a player because he faked it enough to trick the system. Go to a real database.
I see you started adding a signature to your last few comics. I like it!
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My signature is in the bottom right of almost every comic for the last 10 years, unless I occasionally forget it
Dude WTF this is literally my Mandela Effect. I’ve been reading this for like 5 years and I don’t remember this at all
Google AI? Pfft. It straight up hallucinates all kinds of BS, then folds like a 2-7 hand when called out on it. Can’t trust it as far as Ryan Leaf could throw it, never mind Dan Marino.
I asked it who Don Shula coached before Miami – it said the Baltimore RAVENS.’
The ONLY thing those AI overviews are good for is finding the sources they used. Most of the time they will put a link to the reference after the “fact” listed. Same thing I typically use Wikipedia for – reference mining.
Don’t get me started on Google Lens misidentifying things.
I recall once, during my illustrious college career of getting curb stomped in pickup basketball games, playing against a guy who claimed to be on the college’s basketball team. Insisted on it. Perhaps he thought he was convincing because he had just had a pretty good game… the fact that I kept getting switched on to guarding him after screens had nothing to do with that, naturally.
I mean, even without the internet I knew this wasn’t true because I was a basketball fan, but of course the roster posted on the team website would also easily prove him a liar. As would the fact that he was playing in a pickup game that I was also playing in…
One of my roommates during my farcical career at BC was on the basketball team. Kostas Maglos. Dude was absolutely huge, he would eat about $300 dollars worth of food at every meal, it fit on like 4-5 trays. And he loved to say, “EEEt’s paydayyyy.” He had a flock of girls around him 24/7. And this was when the dude was just a college player.
There is an AURA, a.. je ne sais quois! When you encounter legit talent like that. I don’t think you need to be a sports nerd to realize a dude on a beach in a 9ers helmet is NOT a player. He should be giving YOU money if he plays for an NFL Team, ladies.
Edwin Williams (C, Ravens) would play pickup on the same courts as me during college at University of Maryland. It says he’s listed at 6’3″ 315 and he would play point guard. I saw him pick up the hot shot on the other team full court, pick his pocket clean, then outrun everyone and finish with a dunk. Definitely made me realize that offensive linemen are the most athletic huge guys in the world.
The videos of this guy “practicing” routes on the beach while wearing nothing but a 49ers helmet and a bathing suit are hilarious.
This is Browns-level of drama that the 49ers have been through.
Shit was funny to me right up until I saw this: https://www.reddit.com/r/NFLForum/comments/1w3sm5a/fake_49ers_receiver_daejon_love_33_allegedly/
Guys actin like “Haha women fell for a ruse!” despite they themselves getting scammed for obviously fake profiles of models where theyre like “Hello dear, I am attractive single woman from Idaho. Please send me Apple gift cards and I will move to meet you!”
Also acting like he was getting them to send him money directly instead of being the bait to send the women to his accomplice posing as an investment broker and getting them to “invest” money in stocks he (the 49er faker) claimed to be investing in himself.
It was a regular bog-standard confidence scam, the faker just happened to be one that we as a football audience would be able to suss out very quickly.
Reminds me of the fake Brad Pitt case where a woman gets scammed. The full story was more insane.
Dang it! I drafted Daejon Love on my dynasty team.
I remember how in “Death of a Salesman” had Happy telling some hookers that Biff is a Giants QB.