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Manti Te’o
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Manti Te’o

Manti Te’o was Notre Dame college's hot shot linebacker and was tipped to be the next NFL superstar. However, it all came crashing down for Te’o in 2013 after he dedicated his senior football season to his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, who he believed had died of cancer. In a shocking turn of events, it turns out that Kekua never existed and Te’o was the victim of a catfishing hoax by an acquaintance called Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who had pretended to be the person Te’o was talking to online.

Though innocent, there was speculation that Te’o had faked the death of his girlfriend for attention. The catfishing controversy cost him a first-round draft pick for the NFL in 2013 and millions of dollars as a result.

Matt Bradfield

05 July 2024

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  • 19 March 2018

    To be brutally honest, I find it very difficult to be sympathetic to hearing that the very rich have been ripped off. Too many of them organise their affairs to avoid paying UK taxes while sponging on other UK tax payers to support their use of UK facilities like Roads, Airports, Education and NHS. Recent examples are Tax Thief Louis Hamilton and Tax Thieves making up some of the cast of Mrs Brown's Boys. All these people can afford financial advisors and if they are too mean to use them then they have only themselves to blame for falling victim to the scammers.

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