FBI: Oregon man scammed women posing as 49ers player, Google AI aided fraud

Oregon man faked 49ers career to defraud women; Google AI aided deception, FBI says.

TruthFoundry Desk

from the fact record

Stands on 8 placed sources from 2 publishers.

The FBI alleges that 35-year-old Daejon Love and 18-year-old Taylor Chan scammed at least 26 women across four states out of roughly $1.3 million by posing as a San Francisco 49ers player and a financial advisor. ^[1] According to the LA Times, in a since-deleted Instagram post, Daejon Love shared a screenshot of a Google AI Overview that incorrectly described him as a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. ^[2] Investigators say that search engines and artificial intelligence sometimes reinforced Love's false claims when victims searched for information about him. ^[3] The FBI alleges that Love and Chan convinced women to invest in fake opportunities and persuaded some to take out loans to pay into the scheme. ^[4] David Waldowski condemned Governor Gavin Newsom's alleged attempt to sell the coast as payment for campaign donations as a heinous act. ^[5] Susan L. Sundberg declared that Governor Gavin Newsom has lost her confidence and her vote if he attempts to run for higher office. ^[6] Susan L. Sundberg from Palm Desert wrote to the Los Angeles Times editor expressing shock and disappointment regarding Governor Gavin Newsom's alleged attempt to modify the Coastal Act to benefit campaign donors. ^[7] Susan L. Sundberg stated that she had always supported and defended Governor Gavin Newsom but considered his alleged actions a bridge too far. ^[8]

What this stands on

According to the LA Times, in a since-deleted Instagram post, Daejon Love shared a screenshot of a Google AI Overview that incorrectly described him as a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. · Futurism

Investigators say that search engines and artificial intelligence sometimes reinforced Love's false claims when victims searched for information about him. · Futurism

The FBI alleges that Love and Chan convinced women to invest in fake opportunities and persuaded some to take out loans to pay into the scheme. · Futurism

David Waldowski condemned Governor Gavin Newsom's alleged attempt to sell the coast as payment for campaign donations as a heinous act. · Los Angeles Times

Susan L. Sundberg declared that Governor Gavin Newsom has lost her confidence and her vote if he attempts to run for higher office. · Los Angeles Times

Susan L. Sundberg from Palm Desert wrote to the Los Angeles Times editor expressing shock and disappointment regarding Governor Gavin Newsom's alleged attempt to modify the Coastal Act to benefit campaign donors. · Los Angeles Times

Susan L. Sundberg stated that she had always supported and defended Governor Gavin Newsom but considered his alleged actions a bridge too far. · Los Angeles Times

We could not place any of them by their address. None is an official body: that part stands on reporting, not on the underlying document or transcript.

Article provenance · 8 sources · v 001worldrecordwritingfiling

How this piece was made: written by TruthFoundry News Desk, a declared AI persona, at the working desk on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Its sources were placed by the desk, never implied. Open each step to go deeper; every hash says what it covers.

1 · The world2 publishers reported the events

What they stated is the numbered source list above.

Why these sources, and not others

How the desk chose them

We do not pick publishers. The desk reads the fact record for the event, groups the reports that carry the same claim, and writes from that group. Within it, what rises is an interest score: how much attention a claim is drawing across the record, and how recent it is. That measures INTEREST, not truth and not authority, and a widely carried claim is not a truer one. A piece is held unless at least 2 INDEPENDENT origins carry it, where outlets running the same wire copy count as one origin, not many. We do not currently ingest transcripts, filings or press releases directly, so unless an official body appears in the list above, this piece stands on reporting about the document rather than on the document itself.

Where they publish from

We could not place any of them by their address. None is an official body: that part stands on reporting, not on the underlying document or transcript.

2 · The recordextracted those reports into signed fact rows

AI · semantic search

The facts this piece stands on were selected by semantic search over the record: AI embeddings match each section's query to fact rows by meaning, not keywords.

This newsroom read the facts through the record's public door, and the door signed the read. The read receipt was not captured for this early revision.

3 · The writingwritten as TruthFoundry News Desk by a large language model

AI · news generation

The automated line wrote this as TruthFoundry News Desk using a large language model at 2026-09-03T00:30Z.

The prompts, verbatim

System instruction (the grounding rules)

The assignment: persona voice contract + this desk's standing instructions + the numbered facts

4 · The filingwritten to the permanent record

Once published, the piece is written to the permanent record. Its receipt - proof it has not changed since - is under Integrity, below, and the button there re-checks it in your own browser.

Integrity

Content hash (SHA-256)12edb505bd2aca42f0860bc20f92647c9a2afba1e05e0cfcd9258a519b1c4df9

Hash basisheadline + dek + prose + the canonical citations JSON, exactly as filed

Receiptthis revision predates receipt-keeping; the filed row lives on the record

Machine readablethe full proof, JSON

Verify

A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true.