The FBI is accusing fake San Francisco 49ers player Daejon Labrayae Love of potentially scamming at least 35 more victims in his $1.3 romance scam. Initially, the feds accused Love, 35, — and his 18-year-old accomplice Taylor Jamie Chan — of defrauding and stealing from 26 women across California, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. That total is now over 60, and the FBI believers there are still more potential victims.
As we previously shared, Love and Chan were arrested by the feds on August 24 at an airport in Boise, Idaho. They had been investigating him since September 30, 2024. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Oregon and court documents, authorities charged the duo with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
Authorities allege Love posed as a San Francisco 49ers player and a wealthy Swiss real estate developer. Meanwhile, Chan allegedly posed as his “financial advisor.”
Prosecutors allege Love started scheming in February 2022 through August 2026. He would allegedly cultivate romantic relationships with women he met online under false pretenses and then encourage them to give him money to invest in what were, in reality, nonexistent investments.
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On Friday (September 18), Portland FBI Special Agent in Charge Doug Olson said the agency is working to verify that the 35 women who have come forward since Love and Chan’s arrest of in fact victims. Olson said:
“We were surprised how many people were victimized in such a short period of time and then to have that many more come forward. It’s a large volume for just a couple of subjects. Our concern is that this fraud could be replicated by other individuals that are out there victimizing other people in similar schemes. We don’t want anyone to be fearful of coming forward—certainly not for fear of embarrassment or anything like that, because we want to help them and we want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anybody else. The victims in this case were targeted precisely because they were trusting, responsible people who they believed were building genuine relationships and legitimate financial futures. They were deliberately manipulated through an extremely sophisticated scheme that blended fake personas, fabricated investment accounts, staged video calls and AI-reinforced false identities. He was either a player, former player, a player on injured reserve, and whatever name he was using, he’d put enough stuff into the media searches so it was the first thing that came up on people’s [Google] page. And it was not just the first thing that came up; it was like there were multiple things in there that would confirm whatever he was telling those folks … The sports thing was always like a big part of it because you have to have some source of initial income to be an investor.”
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