Daejon Love isn’t the first alleged scammer to spark memes. Here are 5 more

Daejon Love allegedly defrauded women out of roughly $1.3 million by pretending to be a wide receiver on the San Francisco 49ers.

Love, 35, and Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, were arrested by the FBI on Aug. 14 at Boise Airport and charged with scamming at least 26 women after courting them on dating apps using Love's fake image as a star 49ers player, and talking them into fictitious investments.

The crazy story has made Love one of the internet's biggest memes, and some have dubbed him the "wide deceiver."

Many are wondering if they could have pulled off the stunt themselves. Others are already planning their Daejon Love Halloween costumes, with Love's iconic gold 49ers helmet as the central piece.

Scammers have a unique history of sparking jokes online. Some want to live vicariously through them, while others joke about the poor fools who fell for their tactics. Scammers of all kinds make for fascinating figures, from Charles Ponzi to Elizabeth Holmes – they brazenly claim to have found a loophole in reality, and when the scheme is uncovered they fall from grace as outsiders gawk. Here are four more scammers who fascinated people on the internet – plus one…

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