McNabb, Sapp were targets of scam attempt

Sports Illustrated ^ | Monday January 3, 2005 9:58PM | AP

[Honcho]

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A 29-year-old Maryland man was charged with theft after calling NFL players Donovan McNabb, Darrell Green and Warren Sapp and convincing them to wire him money.

Lewis Sills of Elkridge, Md., faces multiple charges of theft and identity theft after stealing or trying to steal from McNabb, Sapp and Green, Howard County police said.

fter persuading Green and McNabb to wire him money, Sills called Sapp, who became suspicious, police said. The Oakland Raiders defensive lineman's financial manager contacted police, who arrested Sills after he picked up money he believed was from Sapp.

"We have not been able to determine how he was able to obtain the personal phone numbers of these players," police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said. "His stories have been described as elaborate, desperate and certainly convincing enough that some of the players wired the money at his request."

[Honcho]

McNabb and Green don't seem to have the street smarts that Sapp does so the story makes sense.

[vrwinger]

Oh good... Another opportunity to bash Donovan McNabb...

[ShadowDancer]

If you don't know someone well enough to recognize that it's not their voice on the phone, why the hell would you send them money?

[pissant]

I guess you can pick out the idiots by looking at them.

[The Old Hoosier]

He's no sapp...

[YouPosting2Me]

Sounds like a Burger King commercial:

Police McNabb the McBurgler.

[ShadowDancer]

McBurger King?

[AmishDude]

Maybe they should have called Emmitt Smith first.

(Reference to an old commercial.)

[YouPosting2Me]

*catch22*

[fso301]

Guy probably called and told them something about him being a Nigerian prince and had $50 million in a locked account. To unlock the account, he needed $50K and would share half of that with the person who wires it to him.

[LoneGOPinCT]

If you look up "Super Genius" in the dictionary, there's a pic of Sapp right next to it!

[AppyPappy]

"Yeah Donovan. This is Marcus. I need $150,000 or I'm going to tell everybody that you went to Syracuse".

[AmishDude]

We know his password, now we just need to find his card number.

[HenryLeeII]

After persuading [Darrell] Green and [Donovan] McNabb to wire him money, Sills called [Warren] Sapp, who became suspicious, police said. The Oakland Raiders defensive lineman's financial manager contacted police, who arrested Sills after he picked up money he believed was from Sapp.

Who would have thought that out of those three, Sapp would be the one to catch on to the scam?!?! But I guess Sills appealed to Green's Christian decency and charitable nature, and McNabb is about as "street" as Peyton Manning, so I guess it makes sense that Sapp is the suspicious one, always lookin' over his shoulder like a common street thug killa'.

[Mr. Jeeves]

McNabb and Green don't seem to have the street smarts that Sapp does so the story makes sense.

Are you suggesting that people in Sapp's circle pull this kind of scam all the time, so he recognized the M.O.? ;)

[Sam's Army]

Stories abound from his days in Tampa of very in-yo-face street antics around the city. Don't dare make the mistake of being a local High School football coach invited by the Bucs organization as "coach of the week" to come watch practice and commit the sin of getting eye contact...