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Your Athlete Is Getting Scam Calls Right Now. Here's What's Hitting Phones This Football Season

Football season opened and so did the floodgates. The FBI and NCAA just warned that athletes' NIL visibility is turning their phones into attack surfaces. Here's what the scam calls actually sound like.

Sep 11, 2026·5 min read
NIL Basics

The "Street Agent" Problem: Why Unregulated NIL Reps Are the Biggest Threat in Your Athlete's DMs

A street agent NIL scam doesn't always look like a scam. It looks like a real person with a real phone number, offering to represent your athlete, who answers to nobody. Here's what the data says and where it hits hardest.

Sep 16, 2026·4 min read