Overview
- The NFL Players Association emailed all certified agents Thursday to flag a scheme that may have hit NFL and NBA players and to share a tool to check for victims.
- The FBI told the union that Kwamaine Jerell Ford posed online as an adult film star and spoofed Apple support to steal iCloud logins and one-time authentication codes.
- Prosecutors say he then pulled credit and debit card data from compromised accounts and spent thousands of dollars on personal purchases.
- The indictment also accuses Ford of recruiting and coercing a woman into commercial sex with athletes and arranging secret filming without the athletes’ consent.
- Ford was indicted in March in the Northern District of Georgia on wire and computer fraud, identity theft, access device fraud, and sex trafficking, and investigators are seeking information from players who suspect they were targeted.