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Tony Gaskins addresses women who have been scammed by Dejan Love, urging them not to feel shame or embarrassment over losing significant sums of money. He emphasizes that unlike physical violence or coercion, financial fraud involves a loss of funds rather than physical harm, making it crucial to understand the psychological mechanics behind the scam to prevent future victimization. The core of Dejan's success lay in his ability to exploit specific vulnerabilities in his targets, primarily by targeting women who were unfamiliar with his culture, his background as a Black man, and the specific industries he claimed expertise in, such as football, Swiss real estate development, and luxury fashion brands like Gucci. The scam operated on three main pillars: unfamiliarity, ignorance, and desperation. Dejan specifically targeted white or Asian women who lacked knowledge of Black culture and sports, allowing him to present himself as a mysterious, wealthy figure without being questioned by those who might have recognized his schemes if they were from his own community. He fabricated stories about owning multiple Gucci stores and developing properties in Switzerland, concepts that his victims did not understand well enough to verify. Furthermore, he preyed on women facing financial instability, convincing them that their only path to security was through him, thereby creating a dynamic where they felt compelled to give up their last savings to avoid losing the "dream" he sold them. Gaskins concludes by warning that these tactics are not unique to Dejan but are common strategies used by various scammers in different contexts, from car dealerships to financial advisors. He advises individuals to establish firm personal standards and deal-breakers regarding money and relationships, ensuring they never invest funds they cannot afford to lose or give away based on emotional desperation. The ultimate lesson is to recognize that when someone tries to create a crisis or an urgent opportunity to extract money, it is often a sign of a scam, and the best investment one can make is always in oneself rather than trusting strangers with life savings.
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Hey, hey, Tony Gaskins here popping in. Now, listen, ladies. To those of you who were scammed, I want you to not beat yourself up over it. I know you beating yourself up over. I know you feel embarrassed. I saw a young man who reached out to this blog page and said that his mom was scammed by Dejon Love, Dejian Love, and said that she was scammed out of 40,000 and said mom was real embarrassed. She was a white woman and not sure when she was scammed, but in the picture she looked a little older, meaning like possibly in her late 30s, early 40s and and Lord forgive me if the lady was in her early 20s, but I don't think so cuz her son is of age. Her son looked like he could be 18, you know, look between 16 and 20. And so I don't want y'all to feel bad. You know, I did a video about it and I said, "Hey, you know, Blas Blas on on Instagram, what it was on Instagram." And I was making light of the situation because the thing is you only lost money. You didn't lose it. It's not like anybody's coming out and saying he forcibly rworded them or he put some in they drink or he chopped them up and put them in the freezer. It's like you lost money and it's important to learn the science behind what he was able to do. A lot of people ain't ain't understanding the science of how he was able to do what he did. And so that's something you got to really think about and process because you know it's there and it's very real. It's one of those things. Yeah. Y'all give me one second. And you know, it's something you got to think about, something you got to process because he was able to play on a lot of psychology. And there was some it it was some factors at play that really will make you believe it if you in a certain space. So for one, these women knew nothing about football. they their dad didn't watch football or they didn't have a dad. So, they knew nothing about football. So, that's one thing. So, when you catch somebody that is ignorant in a certain area, then you able to get them. But also, he scammed a woman because he said he was a Swiss, his family was Swiss developers. And so again, the lady knew nothing about Switzerland. She knew nothing about real estate development. She knew nothing about fashion because he said that they are shareholders in three Gucci's, three Gucci stores, which is impossible because Gucci is a brand and Gucci does not have franchisees where you can have shares in a individual store. So she knew nothing about fashion. She knew nothing about Gucci and how that works. because she also didn't know that Saks Fifth Avenue is not a street and that it is only a store. So really he was able to find women who were ignorant and not the derogatory term but the literal term ignorant in certain areas and they were ignorant in those areas of football or real estate development, real estate investing. And the other thing is he is a black man and they were the ones who fell for it seem like to be white or pretty much white the ones who fell for it. So now where he played at him on that is you go to where there's a unfamiliarity. I seen one like really light-skinned young lady, but she looks like she's mixed and she posted the video, but she's mixed look like or she could be a black woman, but the lady is from the lady is from Oakland and Oakland is a is a big hub. you know, you know, I know a little bit about you and what you do, where you from or where you live at. Um, so here's the thing. You obviously match. We both found each other physically attractive >> and it got music on. I won't get no copyright strike. But so he was talking to the young lady from Oakland. She is in an apartment that look like a trap house to a degree. Although it's not. It just It just doesn't It's not like a downtown high-rise with Florida ceiling windows and she had a video on her page where she got a $100,000 laid out on the on the on the ground and she says she's a day trader. So, she's a hustler. She a paper getter. So you're not f to fool her and she from Oakland. You're not f to fool her. So she ghosted the man multiple times, hurt his feelings. I mean, he met his match. But here's the thing that happens when you go out when you date outside your race. Familiarity breeds contempt. Remember? So, how can you have contempt for somebody you familiar with? Because you around him all the time. You know him all the time. You used to him. So, when you see Dejan Love and you a black woman, that's that's your crackhead uncle. That's your high school dropout cousin. That's your That's your homeboy from around the corner. Like, you see bits and pieces of him that let you know he's full of it. You also, as a black woman, have a lot of friends or family that played football. All the men in your family watch football every Sunday. So, by default, you maybe have had to get into it to a degree. So that's why he steered clear of black women because he knew that white women and Asian women would be for the most part ignorant to his race, to his culture, to his schemes, to what he was talking. One thing about black people is when we dealing with somebody that's black, we pick up on bull quick. We'll get scammed by a white man. Huh? That's how all these black athletes get scammed by their white financial advisor and they refuse to work with a black financial advisor because of how they see black people and they feel black people are ignorant and financially illiterate. And for the most part, they are right. And it's not a lot of black financial advisor. So, they don't work with them and they go to the white financial adviser and they get scammed. And the white financial advisor does way way way way way worse than Dejian Love did to these women. And so he went to a race of and I used to date white women in high school and college. And one thing that was right off the bat that I could tell they was intimidated by black men. They intimidated by black men. They fear black men. They they really unless they grew up with black men and got black men in their family because all their sisters got a black man or something or somebody have black they intimidated or they fear or they are in awe. A lot of times black men have a a majestic type of aura to us to women of another race. And so it's one of those things. And um and y'all forgive me. Somebody just wrote me. Let me reach out one sec. And y'all forgive him. Forgot what I was saying. But this the thing is you got to be able So how how this guy was able to do this? These are the factors he put in place. He went with unfamiliarity by going to women of another race. He also went with ignorance by talking about something he figured women know very little about. my it's it's a reason he didn't say I'm I'm an investor in hair salons or I own hair weave hair extension companies or I started a makeup line that's very popular. I'm I'm one of the founders of Maybelline or L'Oreal. It's reason why he ain't go with something that women know something about. Then the other thing what he played on is desperation. Because think about it, for you to receive a video, a Deion love video, a Deian love video. and not throw up on yourself. As a woman, you're desperate. You are extremely You're broke. You, and when I mean broke, meaning you cash broke. You got some money in your 401k. You may have some money put up for like rainy days, for a hard time. you got decent credit 680 to 750 but you cash poor you you paycheck to paycheck and that's what that was the unfortunate so that's why I started to feel bad about my video because the lady the y'all forgive him. Trying to book um Kim Moy, the LSU head coach for a speaking game. So, if any of y'all know her or got a daughter or a niece that played for her, y'all let me know. Reach out to me. Let me know. And so that desperation, so that's why I started to feel bad about my video cuz the lady sound like she was in tears on her text message. And if I could find it, I read I read it. But I don't know if I I don't even think I sent it to my wife cuz I think she be sending to me cuz she know I care more about it than she do. But and then I seen a man, I don't know if it was parody though, but he say his woman left him for Dejian Love and say she was moving, selling the house and moving to San Francisco to be with Deian Love. And it was one of those things and I'm like, man, that's interesting. And so I'm like, wow. So she leaving her man because he sold her dream about investing. She broke her man. He working regular bluecollar job. This white lady is her and her son. And she said to him, and it's a page, I can't remember the page cuz I don't think I followed it, but she said to him, she said, "You you don't want me and my son to have a Christmas. I told you my situation. I'm in a financial situation. I need the money back by next Tuesday or something like that." I'm scrolling through my timeline. see if that page come up. And he's like, "That ain't how it work. I'm not going to be explaining stuff to ignorant people who don't understand nothing. I ain't going to be doing that." And so, one second. for two years on and off. But you know, I can tell when she come home, she still like a little distracted, you know. So I'm push on. She Oh, no. It's just, you know, home girl they going through. We all still talking about, you know, this and that. I'm like, when I was Sunday morning, you know, she before me in the living room, she going to ask me 49ers playing today. Well, you start like the 49ers. She just, "Oh, you acting all inseure." You know, >> I don't know if the story real or if he just doing it, you know, if he just doing it to to do it. It It look like he missing some of his front teeth and stuff. I don't know if this is his young lady in the picture with Dejon, but it look like if it is, she got a little set of ham cakes on them and so I don't know what that is, but it just kind of shows you. So the lady the now the white lady, she said, "You don't want us to have no Christmas. I told you about my situation." And he's like, he's like, I don't I ain't gonna be explaining nothing to you and all of that, trying to break this down to you. You don't know what you talking about. This ain't how stuff work. And I'm still reading this man post. This man post everywhere. This man had so much content he would put out. like what in the world man had all kind of content he was putting out and so it's one of those things to where she took and gave the man the last 40,000 she had and then she out of money. She's out of money and she's like, "When I tell you these folks, everybody making content of this man and they making AI content like he was in their store with his helmet. This big old brand who do posters and stuff iconic. They making a post of the man of him and it says for the job you want." It's like this man. And then oh my goodness. Now here go Lou Young. Well, Lou Young is hilarious. Now he doing his skit. He actually in shape. He doing his skit about the man. I got to watch his skit. Well, his thing his kids be so funny. So he I got to watch his kid. I wonder how he in such shape like I bro. How he in that shade? He ain't played football in forever. And so think about that. You put all that together. Put all that together and here you have this guy. The desperation, the ignorance, and the unfamiliarity. And that's how a scam is going to work. He got them in a space. They unfamiliar about it. They don't know nothing about it. And here's the thing. He's a black man. Black men are black men to non-black people are seen as cool, swaggy, confident. So they couldn't see that he was uh what black people would call a cornball or a lame or a square or or whatever. They couldn't see that. And so they see a black man with a bunch of diamonds and fancy cars and he played on that. And that's why I tell y'all all the time, desperation is a weak emotion and it produces weak results. Never operate from desperation. You want to operate from love. And if you operate from desperation, it's going to cost you. So you got to be careful with that. That desperation will cost you. And so think about that, process that, realize that because this is happening. Another young lady wrote me and I can't ain't had time to get back to it yet, but she was she was dating a dude and she say she lost thousands of dollars. Gave him thousands of dollars. And I hear this all the time. Another lady say she gave 90 95% of her life savings. Another lady gave I think it was $6,000 in in the first two weeks of meeting a dude on a day nap. Another lady $2,000. Another lady $30,000, $15,000, $10,000. It's so many men that's getting money off of women. And that's the same recipe. Desperation. desperation now the big D and and and not saying he got one the big D desperation that's the number one thing going to get y'all the other thing is unfamiliarity that's that's what you got to realize you don't know this person so like one of the ladies that wrote me she got finessed basically by like quote unquote celebrity so now and this the thing y'all all be seeing headlights. Y'all y'all y'all get with somebody who look like he got money and he look like he got motion. And so you say, "Oh, he got money. He got motion." Yeah. And you start to see Oh my goodness. I literally open my Tik Tok and he on here talking >> to women and we all know what what a woman's dream guy is. Tall, handsome, successful, all these other things. And I used to tell guys how to be, you know, the how to be the candidate for their dream woman, which is he got to be successful. That's number one thing. and amongst other things. But the only way men are going to continuously provide for someone is if she's follow his lead and she's everything he needs. I always tell people that because when you see older men and not saying that this is our dynamic, but when you see older men, young women, right, you go, "Damn, she losing dude." And I tell people, see, that's why you got to educate yourself because if they together, that means that um she's everything that he needs. and he's everything that she needs and it's and it works out. You know what I mean? So what rich people, what we need from our woman is different from what a regular guy needs from his woman. It's completely different. So I don't mind and it just comes with our nature as a man. When you successful to take care of protect your woman, I don't mind doing that. But she better be everything I goddamn need if I'mma retire her and have her living some life that's one of one. You know what I mean? So anyh who, there's that. I don't argue with my woman. I don't do none of that You know, when I speak, I expect my woman to listen and analyze cuz for one, I don't like talking. You know what I mean? I like listening and paying attention. that way I could go ahead and get to know someone or the situation quite quick. So, you know, a lot of people are used to saying whatever they want to, doing whatever they want to, then apologizing for And it's like, if somebody care about you enough, they'll forgive your ass, but they ain't going to never forget you said that And they ain't never going to forget you capable of some That's why I don't like talking too much. I like listening cuz I don't want to have to apologize for some that I could have thought about before I said or did, you know? But that comes with being My boy had My boy had the My boy had the advice for y'all. And then my dog had My dog had what? What my dog had? He had He say he don't like to talk. Wow. Now that right there blowed me. He say he don't like to talk. My boy say I don't like to do all that talking. Sir, excuse me. So this the thing that you got to realize this the game that the man played and that's how you can do that. You able to take and finesse all everybody. You able to finesse everybody. Why? because of what you know that they don't know. And that's what you got to realize is these men, what they f to do, what they going to hit you with is they going to hit you with something that you don't know nothing about. You're going to be there. You going to see and you going to be listening to what he talking about and it's going to be a crisis or it cuz this what scammers going to use. They going to use a crisis or they going to use a opportunity. Either way, it's going to be a crisis or opportunity and it's going to catch you off. It's going to catch you off guard. you're not gonna know what you got going on. And the thing about it is it's it's a situation to where you're not going to be able to decipher every lie if you desperate. That's what you got to be mindful of. You're not going to decipher them lies if you are desperate. So you got to be careful when you look at that situation right there. You have got to be careful of what you give. And because the thing about it is what you got to understand is the man wants to. He want to finesse you. He want to get you to where you caught up and he got that uh uh on you and he you he knows you need him. That's what he want. He want to make sure you need him. So you got to realize that. And the way that that's going to work is you have to have your standards in place so that there's things that you will not give. One of those things need to be money. The next thing need to be that ca bell. When you come off that ca bell, you need to be ready to be pregnant or be ready to catch a STD and be ready to die. If you ain't ready for one of those three or all of those three, then don't give them none. Let them wait. And so this how Dejian Love was able to get these women. And it is just shocking to see the amount of videos this man got up. I mean on Instagram and on Instagram and what's the other one? Tik Tok. I'm like, "Wow." I'm just scrolling for a little bit and I could see this this man on the timeline, especially on my Tik Tok. He right on the timeline and I ain't even scrolling that long and he right there. So, I'm kind of like, my goodness, trying to see how far I got to go. Let's see what other Well, then you can plan because you know for sure you're gonna die, but it don't work like that. You can die whenever or you can have your life changed whenever. So for me, I wake up every day, do what the I want to do whenever I want to do it. >> Y'all excuse the language. >> Now, most people don't get to live that life. They wake up at 5 before the sun comes up. hand traffic with everybody else. They get off hand with everybody else. Weekend comes, they too tired. So he's selling the dream now. And so put you down. Your life ain't enough. You ain't got enough. You need to level up. You need to come up. Come up with me and I'mma show you how to get this here. illa help you get this here paper. And so guess what? If somebody got something that you ain't got, you want that. And but nothing is verifiable. So, none of these women went, they met a financial advisor, but none of them went met him, met um the guy, sat down, met his family, went into these different houses. Because like you got all these houses take them over to that $20 million house you got in uh billionaire row or whatever it is and it's like who got a $20 million house and then got the plastic Tupperware containers for their shoes against the wall. Like if you got a $20 million house, wherever you stand at going to be by on that level, even if it's smaller. And so that's the thing. They was looking at it like, you know what, I'm broke. He look like he got money. I need to get some money. Y'all forgive my wife. Shopping in the car. He He got money. I need to get some money. And so I'mma give him my last to see if he could flip this money for me. And that's where it came from. Desperation. And that's what I called American greed. Got a call coming in y'all. I'll be back one second. Y'all forgive me of this recording and I'm trying to see here. Okay, there we go. So now this what I want you to think about and I had to take a call house maintenance and stuff like that. But this what I want you to think about because we seeing Deian love and we getting us some great laughs off of them. But the thing about it is is this going to happen to many more women in in regular ways. So the man who work up the street at the construction company will scam you. The man who at the car lot will scam you. The man who at the insurance agency will scam you. All of that right there. All that will happen. So, want you to think about that and get to a place to where you identify, am I desperate? What won't I do? What your standards are? What won't you do? And what red flags are you looking for? This man, Dejian Love had so many red flags. But at the same time, here's the thing. Like the the lady who wrote me, her man was just asking for money. He was asking, "Hey, I need help with this. I need help with that." And it's like, "Okay." It's like you're a grown man. You you know celebrities. Why are you asking your girlfriend for loans for money? The lady loan the money. I guess they broke up and fell out. He talking bad about her and now she hot. But the thing about it is if if a man don't strongarm you, he ain't twist your arm and take it. He ain't put no gun to your head. It's on you. You got finessed. And when you get finessed, you got to learn the lessons. Because if you don't learn the lessons, guess what? You're going to get finessed again. And you going to get finessed over and over and over. So, I'm going to tell y'all a secret. It's one thing if you invest in somebody who already proven like you know for a fact you done seen them for years. You know what they do. That's that's something different. Somebody that you know and you see. It's another thing when something is backed like you you know it's backed SEC regulated or registered and which is not the same but you know it's some type of backing some type of stipulations. It's some some red tape in order. It's always a risk. Any investment is a risk. So you got to ask yourself and this why I try to tell y'all when you get ready to invest. You got to ask yourself, can I flush this money down the toilet? If you can't flush it down the toilet, then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Only invest what you can afford to lose. Don't invest what you can afford to lose. Because if you invest what you can afford to lose, then you're gambling. And when you gamble, even though you're going to win sometimes, eventually the house going to win and you're going to lose it all. the more chances that you take. So you can invest here and you can have great returns. But you keep investing, keep investing, keep investing, eventually you going to take loss, loss, loss, loss and before you know it, you'll be done lost everything that you done gained because you kept gambling. You kept taking chances. The best investment is always yourself. Invest in your company. Invest in your nonprofit. Invest in your book. Invest in your t-shirt line. Invest in you. Invest in your mind. Invest in your body. Invest in your growth. Invest in your advancement. Invest in your entrepreneurship. Invest in you. Spend your money on you. Don't ever give a man your money. Don't ever give a man your money. That's a rule of thumb. And this right here with the economy we in, hey, it's about to get worse. You f to have more and more people begging. And that's why I that's why I work. That's why I work. And I whatever I do, it's an exchange. Hey, go to my mentor.life. Book a session with me. Want to talk to him? You need need some help, book a session with me. Guess what? That session feed my family. I don't have to ask you for a donation. That session feed my family. Hey, go buy a course. Hey, go buy a book. Hey, let me do a service for you. I ghost write for you. I'll be a author consultant for you. All whatever it is, hey, that right there, it's going to happen. It's going to happen. And so that's what you got to realize is you have got to set your standards, have your deal breakers, what you will and won't do because you about to get played on. You, if you're a single woman, you could easily meet a man tomorrow who he want to move in with you. Next thing you know, he driving your car. He driving you, dropping you off to work. And he all in your car at other women houses. He all ripping and running. He trafficking in your car. He going and picking up slabs and old ounces from from the dope hole. And he out here whipping and slanging in your car. Not your car. A little Not your car. A little drug mule. everywhere. And so here what you got to realize and understand. It's going to hit you like that. And what I want you to do is break this down to where you take it from that that big old oh getting scammed for tens of thousands. Take it from that now and break it down to what about the man who what about the man who just follow you who he just followed you online connect with you y'all just dating and then he hit you up and like oh no my daughter had to go she have a cancer scare she was in remission they trying to charge me $2,000 to get a to get her admitted to get the procedure done. My insurance won't pay for it all. Show you the picture. Daughter in the bed, intubated. And you like, man, poor baby. You can even go out there and meet the daughter and he's still lying to you. insurance and took care of it. Everything took care, but he and he literally using his child to get some money off of. Hey, I wish I had it. Like, I really wish I had it. I can start a GoFundMe and I could post it and you could post it or what have you. I wish I had it. And you just got to move like that because you until you know that you know And so that's what you got to realize and understand. It's one of those situations. So until you know that, you know, you could be scammed. You can be scammed. So, want you to think about that, process that, and don't just look at it like, oh, these 26 dummies, because the scam show up in different ways. Now, if you've given a man money and he ran off on you and you've healed and you woman enough to share it, put that in the comments so other people can see how the man, what lie the man told you and how he got money off you, what he did to scam you. So, think about that. Put that in there. Share that with us. Or if it happened to your friend, you you you can, you know, tell a little lie and say it was your friend, you know, was you. But I'm going to tell you, ain't nothing to be shamed about. You live and you learn. Nothing to be shamed about. We all done got I done got in business. You know, God say, "Oh, I'mma do search engine optimization, what they call SEO. I'mma do SEO for your website. You going to be ranking number one on Google, 5,000 a month. I'm doing it right here for Friendly Chevrolet in Dallas. You Google friendly Chevrolet. I Google friendly Chevrolet. They come up number one. He's like, "That's my client. I charge them 35,000 a month. 25,000 a month." He like, "But because you're an individual, I'll just charge you 5,000 a month. Three months. You got a guarantee. Three months. Did three months, paid the man 15,000. Not one thing changed on my website." Come back day 90. He talking about, "Oh, your web guy didn't change your meta tag on day one." And I'm like, "So you told him to change the meta tag, but then you never checked to see if the meta tag was changed." When you started taking him $5,000, paid the man $15,000. I still want to go outside his head to this day. Still want to go outside his head. And the unfortunate part, it wasn't even my money. It was my business partner money. He he made the investment. And but I still treat it like my money. And so it's like, I lost that man money. I got to make that money back. And so we all take losses. It it can happen to us all. So I want you to think about it now cuz you might be next. You might be next. So think about it. think about it and get get that get your spirit right and get your mind right so that when it happen and this the thing you ain't got to be rude. You ain't got to call a scammer out. You ain't got to yell and cuss. Take your lumps. Move on if you already got scammed. if you didn't get scammed, uh, you know, I thank you whatever for your time, but I don't, you know, I don't really feel like we're a fit for one another. I don't want to waste your time and block your blessings or anything like that. So, I'm wishing you the best on your journey and I know everything will work out for you, but I appreciate you hitting me up and, you know, the chats that we've had, but I don't think it'll be a good fit for me. Boom. Move on with your life. Go on about your business. Because I'm telling you and it ain't just like right now I got something going on at my house like a league or something like that. I don't know if the rule for what I know if I call a company out there right now in this recession they going to try to get over. They going to try to hit me across the head. They going to try to hit me across the head. So you got to realize that cuz they going to come, they going to see, oh, look at this neighborhood he in. Look at the cars in the driveway. Look at this house. I done looked it up on Zillow. Cost more than the houses around his. Oh, he got it. Let's tell them is this this this and they gonna hit me with a 3x price. So it don't matter. So not even right now, not even just the romance scams. You about to be scammed in your car maintenance or home maintenance or whatever it is that you trying to do. Like my wife car right now is at a reputable dealership and I know they trying to find something to run up a price. I already know it. They trying to find something to run up a price. It's just how it work. And so want you to realize and understand that and get your mind right. Get ready and we'll be in touch. I'll be looking out for y'all messages and stuff y'all send me on topics and all of that. I ain't been able to get into that merit at first sight or nothing like that yet. If you ain't in the purpose pushers, hey, we pushing right along. Go hop on in there, join us. God bless you. Keep your head up. We'll talk soon.