Fake 49ers Player Daejon Love’s Accomplice Arrested, Victims Multiply By The Dozens

Daejon Love and his 18-year-old accomplice, Taylor Jamie Chan, got caught at the Boise Airport in August, but the real damage keeps surfacing as the FBI now says 35 more women are coming forward, claiming they got scammed.

The original case already involved 26 victims who lost over $1.3 million to this elaborate romance and investment scheme, and now the numbers are climbing higher.

This isn’t just about a fake 49ers player anymore; it’s about how deep the deception went and how many more people are realizing they got played.

Love spent years building an entire fake life on social media and dating apps, posing as a wealthy NFL player or Swiss real estate investor depending on which woman he was talking to.

He’d meet them on Tinder, Hinge, and Facebook Dating, develop romantic relationships, then convince them to invest money in schemes that promised massive returns.

The whole operation was theater: custom 49ers helmets, fake bank account screenshots showing balances over $30 million, three-way FaceTime calls where Chan pretended to be his financial advisor.

Love even had a custom cake made with a personalized 49ers jersey to “prove” he was signed by the team.

None of it was real. Not a single victim got their money back or saw any investment returns.

Some women were coached into taking out personal loans, promised they’d recoup the debt quickly through investment gains. When victims asked too many questions or ran out of money to send, Love would block them.

FBI Special Agent Doug Olson said the agency is still working to verify the 35 new victims and believes there are even more out there who haven’t come forward yet.

The scheme ran from February 2022 straight through August 2026, when Love and Chan got arrested at the airport. Love traveled constantly- New Mexico, California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho- living in hotels paid for with victim money, driving luxury cars and staying one step ahead until the FBI caught up.

Financial records show Love and Chan pulled in roughly $1.3 million from the 26 identified victims, but with 35 more women now stepping forward, that number will probably spike.

The FBI opened its investigation in September 2024, but by then Love had already run this operation for years, and the damage was done.

Love and Chan face wire fraud and conspiracy charges, but the real story is how many more victims are still discovering they got scammed and coming forward to report it.