Blowing My Cover
Blowing My Cover My cover being hip, aware, and not easily fooled. Yeah, right! Sometimes not. What prompted this was the news of Daejon Love’s successfully scamming a lot of women out of at least $1.3M. These are the kind of guys who, if pursuing legitimate employment, could be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Their EQ (emotional intelligence) is off the charts – they are talented in reading people, and recognizing a need and filling it. In Mr. Love’s case he found women who were football fans, so he posed as a San Francisco 49er. And…… promised them the moon, after getting a little money for the down payment. My minor league attempted scam happened many years ago. Refer back to “The Dating Game” post and “The Entrepreneur”. No 49er impersonator here. I’ve never been a football fan and even in my teens had no interest in football players. I liked smart, funny guys. Anyway, the entrepreneur zeroed in on my need and gave the illusion of filling it. I was starting t...