Trea Turner impersonator allegedly scammed 70-year-old woman out of $50k

An anonymous 70-year-old Pennsylvania woman was scammed out of $50k by a man impersonating Phillies shortstop Trea Turner. This is one of the most bizarre stories I’ve covered here at The Liberty Line just on its face, but after reading the whole story, I’m just left scratching my head.

FOX 29 broke the news on this Trea Turner impersonator and told this woman’s story:

“I followed his career, I’m a baseball fan,” she said.

A person on Facebook, claiming to be Trea Turner, asked if she could download Google Chat to continue the conversation. She was skeptical.

“He writes me back at night and says, ‘Oh, thank you for your encouragement, because of you did you see how many hits I got? I got a standing o,’ and I’m thinking, something’s not right here,” she said. “He said, ‘Oh I love you.’ What? I’m 70-years-old, I have varicose veins older than this guy.”

She says the messages got more personal and more strange, and included photos of Turner, his wife, and children.

“He was relentless, but he’s convincing, he’s repeating things that I knew Trea Turner did on the ballfield,” she said. “He kept harping on it for about three weeks so finally I said, ‘Alright, what do you want?’”

The woman says the imposter explained that he was not getting along with his wife and needed help with various properties to keep it quiet. The request for money, different accounts, and ways to send money followed.

“I was gullible, I believed him,” she said. “I should’ve known better but, I just, I overlooked it.” – FOX 29

I so very badly do not want to make fun of this woman. She was a victim of a heinous financial crime that seniors across America fall for on a daily basis.

But at the same time… Trea Turner will be making over $300 million in total over the next decade. I don’t think he’d need $50k, even on a short-term loan. It’s not like he’s Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter or anything.

This also really is a testament to the type of wealth Boomers have accumulated while strip mining this country. I’m not mad at this lady specifically, but if you asked most folks for $50k, even if it’s for their favorite baseball player in the whole wide world, they’d look at you like you’re insane.

Hell, I’m skeptical when my buddy Venmo requests me for the previous night’s bar tab. There’s no way I drank that much. I would remember something like that.

Even if you did manage to get that money out of them, it would mean certain financial ruin. I’m not mad at this lady and her generation for stacking the cash up to the ceiling—somebody had to do it after all—but this whole story is just nuts.

That’s not to say I want her ruined financially. In fact, I want all $50k returned to her immediately. But, unfortunately, police think this faux Trea Turner may be well out of reach.

“We don’t have any local suspects, we believe this is outside of the country, but we’re doing what we can,” said Lt. Geoffrey Wainwright.

Yeah, I mean, I could have told you that. This has “Indian guy in a warehouse in Bangalore” written all over it.

If only there was a way for her to go back in time and undo this mess. Fortunately, I think I might have the right man for the job.

Now, there is the theory that all of this is true and it’s actually Trea Turner trying to scam old women for money to fund some kind of illicit side hustle. I don’t think that’s what is happening, but wouldn’t it be wild if it was?

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