ESPN.com hired some chick they never met might turn out to be a fake person/scammer

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I like how the dude claimed he was "manipulated" into giving "her" thousands of bucks. Yeah right, buddy, you were trying to get laid by a "girl" well out of your league, who was messaging you on the internet, and thought your ingenious sports bets would woo "her." You deserved to be scammed, dude.
 
This story keeps getting stranger, check out awfulannouncing.com for more into this scammer. She seems to be involved in a network of fake Twitter accounts. It's really dumb but fascinating.
 
What a crazy bitch. I'm glad that Ben guy got his NBA meme page back, he sounded pretty hurt about losing it. Hopefully the guy who posted his encounter with her at Nilsen Report gets his account back. I love reading stories like this about scammers being outted and screwed. I hope legal action is soon taken against her, or him, whatever
 
The most interesting thing about this story is the monetization of Twitter accounts. Figuring out how to turn followers into dollars is the future, I suppose.

At first I was wondering how she was convincing these people to give up their accounts, but I think I've got it somewhat figured out:

1) She uses her pretty face and Nelish's knowledge of sports betting to get a gig writing for Covers. He calls most of the shots.

2) She eventually gets hired at ESPN by Lynn Hoppes, who thinks that he can bring a lot of traffic to Page 2 by hiring a pretty girl. I've met the dude before - he's a total asshole.

3) Nelish decides it would be brilliant to use the Page 2 gig as leverage to convince people to hand over their lucrative social media ventures by promising them a cut of the profits once everything is consolidated into some fantasy media empire. They never had much money, but they did have the ESPN connection, and they used it effectively to swindle people out of their Facebook/Twitter accounts.

4) Deadspin catches wind of it, reports it, and ESPN shitcans Phillips. According to the Oregon State school newspaper she's currently working at an AT&T store in Corvallis.
 
http://deadspin.com/5907081/sources...ple-together-got-fired-from-t+mobile-together

"One reader—Chris, from Eugene—said Prasad and Phillips first met when Prasad was a senior in high school, and she was an eighth grader (and still in middle school). They started dating not long after, said our source."

creepy

The scam stories just keep coming...
http://deadspin.com/5907079/another...er-for-espn-and-i-plan-to-take-over-the-world
http://nilsenreport.ca/2012/05/01/former-espn-columnist-sarah-phillips-exposed/

I had no idea Twitter followers were a form of currency, apparently in addition to the scams, she was buying Twitter accounts and followers
http://deadspin.com/5906849
http://www.wagerminds.com/blog/sarah-phillips/sarah-phillips-deadspin-exposes-the-fraud-5803/
 
Sounds like a bunch of jealous dudes trying to find a problem where there is none.
 
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