17 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

Inquirer.com

A Philly entrepreneur allegedly scammed NFL athletes, eve...

Mohamed Coulibaly used Jalen Carter, Nakobe Dean, and Terrell Edmunds to lure in others to his scheme. He was found dead in his home last month.

6 minutes ago, devpool said:

Someone else posted that Howie said "hope isnt a strategy", in response to me saying that they shouldve seen what Cooper had before drafting Lemon at 20. I was saying that the draft is basically all hope so it kinda is a strategy.

I can agree with that. At best, Lemon is the 3 or 4 WR this season. Actually, Cooper needs to be the 3, IMO, this season.

7 minutes ago, DaBirds said:

I don’t drink often but I tied one on a few days ago and apparently I ordered this t shirt while I was drunk and just go the confirmation email it was shipped 🤦

Similar to how I ended up getting this shirt for fathers day:

3 minutes ago, devpool said:

Someone else posted that Howie said "hope isnt a strategy", in response to me saying that they shouldve seen what Cooper had before drafting Lemon at 20. I was saying that the draft is basically all hope so it kinda is a strategy.

I think they were just trying to add weapons for the new offense and with AJ leaving. They added 4 new WRs and 3 new TEs. Draft picks they do their due diligence on the positions like every team and there's a "hope" they work out that is inherent with selecting them. More like a gamble or expectation. With trading or signing veteran players you have the film on them to know what they've done at the NFL level. I'd be more concerned if Lemon were the only move at WR they made. This offense might be DeVonta and then WR by committee spreading the ball around, including TE and RBs.

11 minutes ago, DaBirds said:

I don’t drink often but I tied one on a few days ago and apparently I ordered this t shirt while I was drunk and just go the confirmation email it was shipped 🤦

An AI and a flop.

That describes both the shirt and the subjects.

2 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Yeice?

It's ye olde delcoish.

13 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Inquirer.com

A Philly entrepreneur allegedly scammed NFL athletes, eve...

Mohamed Coulibaly used Jalen Carter, Nakobe Dean, and Terrell Edmunds to lure in others to his scheme. He was found dead in his home last month.

wish I could read the article. Shoot me your login 😆

This team has no TEs to "spread the ball around to”. There’s only one. 🙃

1 minute ago, Eriv20 said:

wish I could read the article. Shoot me your login 😆

Odd. I didn't need one. Thought it was a free article

Hours before Mohamed Coulibaly was found dead in his Gloucester County home, one of his alleged victims said the 23-year-old entrepreneur had been desperately seeking a $75,000 loan.

A recent Barron’s investigation alleged Coulibaly defrauded three former NFL players out of $1 million in an e-commerce scheme involving fake Shopify stores. Now others who invested in the venture or lent Coulibaly money were blowing up his phone. They wanted to know if Jalen Carter and several former members of the Eagles, including Nakobe Dean and Terrell Edmunds, were even real clients, a claim Coulibaly made on promotional materials.

Above all, these people wanted their money back.

The morning of his death, July 31, Coulibaly solicited money from a New York man, who agreed to speak with The Inquirer on the condition of anonymity to protect his family’s privacy. He is one of at least 10 people, including the three former NFL players, alleging Coulibaly scammed them out of more than $5 million through phony investments over the past year.

Coulibaly, who lived in Mullica Hill, a section of Harrison Township, promised to send a Lamborghini, two gold Rolexes, and a signed Lionel Messi cleat as collateral for what was to be a weeklong loan.

Coulibaly still owed the man $1 million for a bridge loan due in March. Yet he insisted the additional loan somehow would make it possible to return the initial money owed. His alleged victim said he figured he could only gain from the arrangement — if the collateral proved to be real.

But a driver — not in a Lamborghini — arrived at his doorstep with two fake watches, an unauthenticated signed cleat, along with an insurance card and a bill of sale for the promised luxe car, according to the man.

The man called off the loan.

“[Coulibaly] then started to cry hysterical on the phone,” said the victim. "He said, ‘I’ve lost it all, please help me here, please help me here.’”

Coulibaly was found dead later that day.
The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office is leading the investigation into Coulibaly’s death and declined to comment. No charges have been filed in connection to the alleged scams Coulibaly is accused of spearheading.

Coulibaly’s death has only added a layer of uncertainty for his allegedly defrauded clients, who now believe they were unwitting participants in a Ponzi scheme. New so-called investments went toward paying off other clients. But the chain could not be sustained.

"In terms of his death, it sounds rather brash or harsh, but the only reason I’m upset for his passing is that he’s not able to go to jail and suffer,” said the bridge loan investor.

The Inquirer spoke with four victims, all but one asked to remain anonymous citing lingering shame, privacy concerns, and in one case, safety considerations. They provided alleged contracts Coulibaly gave them, text messages, screenshots of their purported Shopify store sales, and a whistleblower report sent to federal and Pennsylvania financial regulators.

In hindsight, the business always seemed too good to be true. The young entrepreneur convinced them they could rake in millions each month selling vacuums, printers, desktop humidifiers, and silicone trays on Shopify, an e-commerce platform similar to Amazon.

At first, investors said they had no reason to question Vent Motion LLC, also known as Motion Venture. Shopify alerted the victims to a steady stream of sales through their phone apps.

But at least two Shopify stores victims bought into were fake, full of transactions a Barron’s analysis suggests are also a sham. Shopify did not respond to requests for comment.

The alleged victims say Coulibaly lured them in by highlighting purported investor relationships with wealthy and connected people. His pitch deck listed several former members of the Eagles and the NBA as clients. Representatives for the current and former Eagles declined to comment or could not be reached.

"A selling point [Coulibaly] gave me was, ‘Hey, we only have about 90 to 100 people in this,’ insinuating you can make it behind the velvet rope because everybody involved is celebrities or athletes, and this is just a venture they do,” said another of the defrauded investors, requesting anonymity because family and friends do not know about the scam.

Yet as more victims find one another in the wake of Coulibaly’s death, it became clearer the scheme was not limited to targeting NFL players.

It involved everyday investors from Arizona, Pennsylvania, and New York who now want to know if any of it was real.


Coulibaly’s college friend thinks he might have been one of the first victims of the Shopify sometime about three years ago. It involved less paperwork back then, more of a handshake deal. The friend put in $5,000 in a store with an investment protection promise in place, he said. Unlike that time in college, however, the friend only got half his money back.

The friendship with Coulibaly cooled after that.

"People just keep on saying he scammed NFL players,” said Coulibaly’s college friend. "No, anybody with money could be scammed, no matter how small.”

Coulibaly would insist money issues were the Dubai firm’s fault until his death, according to his alleged victims who shared screenshots and voice memos of conversations.

He ricocheted from distraught about the financial ruin that awaited him if he didn’t acquire more investors, to defiant, celebrating the Philadelphia 76ers LeBron James trade on X as he dodged investors.

When Keim and another investor flew into Philadelphia to meet with Coulibaly late July, they spent a day and a half trying to figure out how much money was left to no avail.

It’s around that time that Coulibaly was soliciting the New York man for the $75,000 loan.

Coulibaly’s last post on X was a reshare a day before his death. "Trying to be everyone’s friend is a foolish behavior,” it read.

Whether any investor money remains is unclear. A now-defunct GoFundMe put together by a man claiming to be Coulibaly’s brother raised more than $12,000 for the body’s "international transportation arrangements.”

Investors are also trying to figure out what legal recourse they might have, if any.

Coulibaly’s death has shattered any last remaining hope some victims had that a Dubai firm was to blame for cash flow issues and they are now seeking legal help.

It also left them feeling cheated one last time.

Not all of it

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

We probably underappreciate Jason Kelce.

20 minutes ago, Eriv20 said:

wish I could read the article. Shoot me your login 😆

Sure, my Nigerian Prince.

Just now, BigEFly said:

Hopefully it's an ankle not a knee.

1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:

I wonder if they will play him in pre-season games much at all.

Kelce doing that coaching is probably the part of the Venn diagram that suits his life. No weekly commit, can impart information to his old team and still do his podcast, etc. The Birds are lucky to have someone willing to do it

8 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I wonder if they will play him in pre-season games much at all.

I think they play him as much as possible - risk free experience.

13 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I wonder if they will play him in pre-season games much at all.

I’d think/hope so. Vic mentioned the other day that they’re cautious with his reps in practice because of the OL (subtext seemed to be he’s likelier to cause an injury because he doesn’t know what he’s doing yet). In preseason you wouldn’t be worried about that.

18 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Its been 21 YEARS ?????..... JFC I got old

Explains a lot.

17 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

I’d think/hope so. Vic mentioned the other day that they’re cautious with his reps in practice because of the OL (subtext seemed to be he’s likelier to cause an injury because he doesn’t know what he’s doing yet). In preseason you wouldn’t be worried about that.

I took it as he doesn't know what he's doing and could get injured by the ones that do