A wild report reveals that a man who posed as an adult film star bilked NFL and NBA players out of thousands of dollars while he was in jail for a similar crime.
Late Thursday night, The Athletic reported a story that no one would have guessed. Apparently, the NFL Players Association contacted agents representing hundreds of players and alerted them that their clients may have been victims of a clever scheme by Kwamaine Jarrell Ford.
This month, the 34-year-old native of Buford, GA, was charged with nine counts of wire fraud, seven counts of computer fraud, one count of access device fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of sex trafficking by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, according to The Athletic.
The US attorney’s office claims that while Ford was previously serving time for stealing credit card numbers from athletes and celebrities, he allegedly tried the scheme again in November 2020. In this example, she presented herself as a popular adult film star to attract the attention of NFL – and NBA – players. He then also posed as an Apple customer service representative and was able to gain access to athletes’ “usernames, passwords, or multi-factor authentication codes” so they could receive videos sent from the fake persona.
After obtaining that information, Ford was able to obtain athletes’ credit and debit card data and spend thousands of dollars on personal items. However, in 2021, the plan that started from jail took a drastic turn.
Prosecutors claim the convict then posed as an adult film star to recruit, deceive and coerce a woman into engaging in commercial sex acts with various athletes. Ford lied by saying that these jobs would further her modeling career. He then advertised the woman to athletes, negotiated payment with the woman in exchange for sex, and then disconnected.
Ford threatened the woman into being part of the scheme and secretly filmed the encounters without her consent to potentially use in blackmail schemes.
Ford was released from prison in January 2022 after pleading guilty to a similar scheme in March 2019. In that plot, he hacked more than 100 Apple accounts belonging to athletes and rappers. He was found guilty of computer fraud and aggravated identity theft and spent approximately $325,000 of the stolen funds.
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