Daejon Love, the NFL impersonator who stole $1.2 million from 26 women, showed them his bank balances on a fake app.
The feds say the 35-year-old scammer posed as an active San Francisco 49ers wide receiver to scam dozens of women in four states.
Federal agents arrested Love and his 18-year-old accomplice, Taylor Jamie Chan, on Monday, August 24, at the Boise (Idaho) Airport.
They are charged with federal wire fraud and stealing $1.3 million from women in elaborate romance-and-investment scams. Chan and Love began pulling scams together when Chan was only 14.
In a 47-page criminal complaint, Love allegedly told women he met on dating apps to send him cash so he could invest it for them. Chan posed as Love’s financial advisor in three-way phone calls, prosecutors said.
The criminal complaint states Love told women he was born into one of the richest families in Switzerland, and that his family held majority ownership in three Gucci stores in the United States.
The Gucci family has not owned any stores since 1993. Gucci stores are not sold to individuals or investors.
In one video, Love walked with a woman through a home he claimed he owned. He showed off closets filled with designer clothes and bags. He opened a safe that he said held about $200,000 in cash, and he showed the woman a watch that he claimed was a real Richard Mille, which retail for over $1 million.
He further impressed the young lady by pulling up his bank balances, totaling more than $30 million, on his phone screen.
Prosecutors say the balances were made with an app called Fake Bank Account Pro, which lets anyone type in bank balances and display them like a real account.
The 49ers and the NFL confirmed to investigators that Love is not a player on the team.
Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud charges carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison each, according to the New York Post.