Daejon Love told the world he played for the San Francisco 49ers and owned a Gucci store on Saks Fifth Avenue. The internet believed him. Google believed him. Now Netflix is chronicling the whole scheme in a new“Untold”documentary called“Untold: Wide Deceiver,”confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. The film will feature firsthand accounts from the people who lived through the deception, and no director has been attached yet.
Here’s the part that still blows our minds: Love’s fake digital footprint was convincing enough that search results backed up his story. NFL players and longtime fans had to work together just to prove he was never on an actual roster. What started as an internet joke that reached locker rooms across the league turned into something far more serious after a group of women reported his schemes to law enforcement.
Love was arrested on wire fraud charges in late August. The doc promises to dig beneath the memes and show the darker reality of what happened to the people involved. It’s the latest entry in a growing wave of sports scam stories hitting streaming, and this one might hit closest to home for anyone who’s ever trusted a too-good-to-be-true profile.
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