Screenwriters couldn’t have thought up this true story any better: A crook uses arguably the greatest football star in history to get rich, and ends up in jail

Munich – He wanted to make a lot of money by buying and selling Super Bowl rings. Now the fraudster has been sentenced to three years in prison, according to US media reports.

Scott V. Spina Jr, a 25-year-old man from New Jersey, had posed as a former New England Patriots player in 2017 to purchase a Super Bowl ring.

His first victim was actually an ex-Patriot who left the team after winning the 2016 NFL title and was not named.

Not only did he cheat him out of the ring with a bad cheque for $63,000. He also obtained sensitive information from the former NFL pro.

Fraudster orders Super Bowl rings in Brady’s name

For example, he was able to buy so-called “family and friends rings” from the then-Super Bowl ring company from then on – claiming they were ordered by Tom Brady for his family.

He tried to resell the three rings through a brokerage firm in Orange County. But they became suspicious, so he sold three rings to a New Jersey sports auction house for $100,000.

There, the rings were marked “authorised by Tom Brady. “

“Rings were never authorised by Tom Brady “

One of the rings was then sold for more than $337,000 in February 2018, according to the court. But it all blew up and the man was sued. “At no time were the rings authorised by Tom Brady,” the criminal complaint said.

At the trial, Spina Jr. pleaded guilty. He now not only has to serve three years in prison, but also pay the former Patriots player $63,000.