{"id":446771,"date":"2026-08-29T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:32:34","slug":"man-posing-as-san-francisco-49ers-player-charged-with-defrauding-dozens-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446771\/","title":{"rendered":"Man posing as San Francisco 49ers player charged with defrauding dozens of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud after posing as NFL players.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, 35-year-old Daejon Labrayae Love and 18-year-old Taylor Jamie Chan created fictitious investments to defraud numerous women in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California.<\/p>\n<p>They would meet the women on the internet, one of them falsely posing as a financial adviser and attempt to gain their victims\u2019 trust and demonstrate the validity of the investments.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme relied on Love\u2019s creation of fictitious personas and display of a lavish lifestyle which Love presented to victims both in person and on social media websites. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY |\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/science-and-tech\/data-privacy-and-cybersecurity\/widow-loses-life-savings-in-romance-scam-that-started-on-a-gaming-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Widow loses life savings in romance scam that started on a gaming app<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love falsely portrayed himself as legitimately wealthy, often as an NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers or as a wealthy real estate investor.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Love would convince the victims they were in sincere romantic relationship and that he was a sophisticated investor. He&#8217;d also convince them that Chan was his investment adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Love also used phone applications to create fictitious bank and investment accounts and balances.<\/p>\n<p>Love and Chan would exchange conversations via text &#8220;encouraging&#8221; investment opportunities in which Love would then send screenshots to the women and convince them to send money to either Love or Chan.<\/p>\n<p>Once victims had no more money to give, or if they asked too many questions, Love would block communication with them, and keep their money. <\/p>\n<p>Financial records show Love and Chan received about $1.3 million from the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud after posing as NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}