Lineman Travelle Wharton joined the Carolina Panthers club in the year 2004 as a starter. When he came to know that his identity is being used to trick victims for the purpose of fraudulent investment proposals, he was stunned.

To the media during a press brief Wharton said, “It’s your name, something you work hard for and to keep clean and you have somebody doing this. It’s kind of a shock and you feel violated.”

According to one victim, who is an aspiring music promoter and an adult entertainer, the fake person had promised her to endorse a music act at the CIAA basketball tournament during this year in Charlotte. Police said that the fake football player promised this to the victim for a payment.

The victim also claimed that she met the fraud at the Carolina Place Mall and had given him an amount of more than $5300.

The woman later met the real Wharton at the Bank of America stadium and then she realized that she had been scammed.