Daejon Love, Angel Murdock & Our Obsession With Skipping "to the good part" transcript

Dejon Love and Angel Victoria Murdoch. Two scammers that have taken the internet by storm. If they have not come across your desk, well, too bad. So sad because they've come across mine. And because I am me, and if y'all did not know this about me, I love little piece of internet tea. So whenever stories like this happen, I usually know about it. Because I have been so nosy and watch so many videos. Of course, I have thoughts.

And y'all know that when I have thoughts, I'm going to make it everybody's problem. If you are new here, hi. My name is Simone Nicole. I make videos about a lot here on this channel. But the main objective that I have is that I do like to kick with my girls, but I always like for people to walk away with some type of lesson. How can we actually make our lives better? Cuz it's cool to laugh and joke and haha about the going on of the internet.

But I truly believe that there are so many different life lessons that we can learn from even the smallest situations. And one thing about me, mama, I could drown in the shallow end of a pool. So, I'mma always make something out of nothing. That's what we like to do over here. So, if you are new here, let's strap in. And um let's start this video off by talking about Dejon's ass. Let's start off by pronouncing his name as properly intended, which is one of his aliases, by the way.

Dejon Love. I just I need a moment with both of them to really lay the cards out of how diabolical both of them were. Dejon is a 35-year-old man. Mind you, a lot of his victims were Betty Betty Young. That's beside the point, but it's just it's something that irritated me and something that continues to irritate me. Allegedly, he started this scheme back in February of 2022, but there is a woman that has come forward on record as early as 2021.

His crimes were just stopped in August of 2026. Now, we have an official 26 women identified. The official money that he has scammed these women out of is $1.3 million. But those women and other women that are in fact too afraid to speak up to admit what happened to them are not going to be included in that 26 women. And as I just said, we know of at least one that did not end up going on the record because these are crimes that they actually have proof for and are prosecutable.

But we all know that there are plenty of other times that you can get scammed, done wrong, crimes committed against you. And the only reason that they don't get pursued by a court of law is just that you don't have enough evidence. So bare minimum 26 women. He met these women in various places but mostly on online dating apps. I am going to try my best to watch my tone with the victim blaming because that's the whole reason why it was so hard for them to like really get him because it is quite embarrassing to be scammed.

So I want to have empathy for that. But I do just want to play one of his infamous videos on screen that he would send. Like I mean as soon as he would get a match he's sending this video. So imagine you just match with D John Love, 49ers player, successful man, showing all of his various watches and things and that on his dating profile and this is the first message you get from him. >> This is my Lamborghini. This car is $340,000.

It's worth more than that. Now, this is my ZR1 Corvette. That's $190,000. Here's my Hellcat Charger Redeye. That's $140,000. And then here's my AMG Benz AMG 63S. That's about $200,000. So, these keys here is probably worth about a million dollar, close to a million. So, um I love vehicles. I love jewelry. This bracelet is about 20,000. The ring is about 10. The pendant is 30. The chain here is 40 or no, it was 50. 55 right here.

That one's another 20. Um the Rashard mill is 300,000. This ring is about 15,000, I believe. And I'll show you all some more [ __ ] here in a second. I love jewelry. It's been my thing. I got veneers in. It's another 50,000. But I'm about to go get tires, put on the whip. So, you know, that's why I I'm going to show you the whips, too. So, what I'm going to do is I'm about to just flip the camera. So, this is my bed.

This is about a $8,000 bed. Here's my TV. This TV is about 8 fucking,000. I love horror [ __ ] So, these each doll is about 2K. >> All right. All right. I got to cut him off because literally that video is so long. For me personally, I just don't like when men I was going to say I don't like when men speak. I It's not that. I just don't like when men like go on and on and on and about like how much they have and how cool they are and how cool their life is and I'm just so super slay and like look at all of my things.

Like you're a liar and you're broke. I personally would have looked at that video and known very soon that he was a liar and that he's broke. The way they ended up getting scammed is going to set me up for what we're going to talk about later in the video. A lot of that $1.3 million was him getting these women to invest in the things that he invested in that got him to this place of being oh so wealthy like he is showing to these women.

He partnered with this young man at the time that they started his co-conspirator Taylor Chan was 13 or 14 years old because when he got arrested when they got arrested he was 18 years old. As I look at their mug shots like I just got so irritated cuz like what are y'all smiling for? Like y'all defrauded people out of over a million dollars. Women. Women that you unabashedly, unashamedly called stupid and hoes any chance you got.

Like what are you smiling for? Broke people should never laugh. Like I'm pissed. Like what are we talking about? So what he would do is literally hit up Taylor and be like, "Hey, I got this this girl that I'm talking to. Go ahead and make me fake accounts having this much money in them." D. And here's what I'll say about the fake accounts and why I need people to just be a little bit more discerning and diligent. The first thing that I noticed was not just the astronomically high amount of money in the accounts, but it was also the fact that all of the accounts had even numbers in them.

No change, just 00. It would be like $54 million and like nothing else. Like no change, no nothing. And I said, you didn't look at that and think when I look at my bank account, it's never a round number. like I don't know if I've ever logged into my bank account and there was a round number whatever. Anyways, he would show these women proof via his lifestyle, his various cars, his his stunning very um impressive and I'm being so sarcastic.

His like regular townhouse that you could find in any city in like middle America and he's like showing the off like yeah like you know what I'm saying? This is the kitchen not furnished. I was not in their situation. I was not in these women's situation. So, I'm going to assume that whatever they saw really sold them. Once he would like love bomb them and get them like into feeling like they they went together real bad, that's when he would start the financial questions.

That's when he would ask, "So, what are your financial goals? What do you do for a living?" And it's not just that. I think that those are normal questions. But then it started to be, "How much do you have? How much cash do you have on hand? How much is in your savings account? Do you have any investments? Do you have any assets? Why in the what a man that I just met, why are you talking to me like you are my financial adviser?

Why are you talking to me like I pay you to care? It's really difficult for me to look at the amount of inconsistencies from what we have seen. And of course, hindsight of 2020, from an outsers's perspective, it feels like there were so many inconsistencies that should have been a blaring red flag to these women. Cuz ultimately, they would hand over the money that he said he wanted to invest. He would make up that there would be all of these accounts that they would be able to get their money back super duper fast.

And they never received any of that money back. And it wasn't just the investment money. He would start dating these women and then a woman like helped him get a McLaren and then she ended up having to take out like $30,000. Like she paid $30,000 to like break the lease cuz ultimately he couldn't pay for it. He's hitting up women being like, "I just need like five bands real quick, baby." Like cuz you know I got this.

It was I'm pretty sure it was the same McLaren girl. Oh yeah, I had the deal but it was only $5,000 off. So I just really needed that $5,000. I had all the rest of the money but I don't got that $5,000 and the bank is going to come for me. So you need to figure it out. I don't care if you got to go to your dad or granny get some money from her. Get some money from somebody. So all of that to say it wasn't just investment money.

He would be in love with these women, have relationships with them and then exploit them monetarily for daytoday too. Thousands of dollars here, thousands of dollars there on top of the significant investment money that he has even gone so far as to have them taken out personal loans to make these investments into. I started to ask myself like what was it really that he was offering that they want badly enough in order to get on this ride with him? because he wasn't just selling an investment in the most real way possible.

He was selling people a bunch of magic beans. Like truly being able to sell a person on the concept that a small investment monetarily or just like the work that you have to get in to get that capital. Selling them on the fact that you have to do little to nothing in order to turn it into a lifestyle of their dreams and have wealth beyond their current imaginings. I fear is a magic bean. It is not based in reality. Wealth like that takes years to build.

Let's hold that thought and now let's talk about Miss Angel. Miss Angel Victoria Murdoch. Wow. Okay. Miss Mamas is 26 years old. She's an influencer before she nuked all of her accounts. I have no idea like how many followers she got up to, but she was definitely posting on them social medias, honey. And then she was also on a season of Temptation Island. Temptation Island was real and we have proof of that. but faking being a PA student.

She said it on the show was her job, but it was really she was treating it like a full-time job. Like for real. Like we're seeing this girl post her rotations, her get ready with me, her complaining about how hard she works, and like as a black woman in health, like it's just so hard for her to make it. And make sure that you're checking in on your friends that are black women in health. telling her that video of her in the car with her friend where her friend is like giving her her flowers about like how hard she works and how proud she is of her and like really like bigging her up.

Angel is just sitting there like yeah cuz I think that I'm going to after all this is said and done like I'm going to take a break and then I might do derm, I might do er that. Like and it almost makes you feel like did you believe it? Like did you fake it so hard that you believed it? and she was so committed to the bit that like the actual PA students started to figure it out like the actual Duke University PA students because it's one of the hardest PA programs in the country and there I think that there's only like five or seven black women in the entire class.

So, they have been putting her in their group messages privately for like they found her pretty early on and they had been talking about her calling a weirdo in their group messages for a while and then finally one of the students went on Reddit and talked about it publicly and then the post went viral and then another young lady, I believe her name was Kiara. My name is Kira. I am a recent graduate of the Duke PA program, class of 2026.

I'm also the class historian, so I know every single person in my class. We know each other by name. We're actually very close. During my dactic year, which is the first year of PA school, when I first started noticing this girl posting, like one of my classmates had said that somebody asked if we know Angel and we're like, who is that? So, we looked into it. We're in deep and didactic year, by the way. So, we're busy.

We have stuff to do. I've been posting my PA school journey since before I even started PA school. And every day from our first welcome weekend, our first orientation is on my page. This girl, Angel Victoria, we found out about her. Like there's literally messages with me and my friends like scrolling like looking through her page trying to figure out like how did she end up getting pictures at our program. Like it's so weird.

And if you notice if you look closely enough, I know her page is down now, but if you look closely enough, she's never posted anything from inside of our building except for one post which was like on a story somewhere randomly and it looked like she was like inside of one of our physical exam rooms. And we like dug into that too cuz how did you get in here? but found out that it was like people the people in the picture were from like classes way above us.

So, she did some digging, found somebody's old story post, screenshot it and made it look like she was in the building. I made it my point, my mission as the person running our social media to make sure that the diversity in our program was outlined. So, if there's not a black person in a picture somewhere, we have a class photo. Here's a class photo and all my friends are sitting in the very front row of the picture.

Like, we have all of this stuff documented. So, if there's a black person that's not there and I'm the historian, just know they were not in my program. It's just like legacy, like to try to play with that, to try to impersonate somebody who's actually going through it at the time. She posted a rotation. It happened to be the one that I was on, like timestamped. In September, I was in psych. In September, she was in psych.

In October, I was in OBGYn. In October, she's posting, "Oh, get ready for me for my OBGYn rotation." She came out and she's like, "Yeah, mama. I'm the classic historian, so I know everybody. I'm black, so I should know you. You don't go here." And she was like, she was literally starting to copy my content. So much so that like I would post something, she would post something. If I was on a rotation, she was soon on that same rotation soon after.

And she DM'd her trying to confront her. Miss Mama's blocked her. Angel blocks her and continues with her fake PA journey. It feels when I say pathological, I'm like, did you convince yourself that this was real or was it like, oh, I'm I'm I'm doing what I got to do for some attention. Like we'll never know her intentions because at the end of the day, she didn't do anything illegal. It's just like extremely embarrassing for her.

So there's not going to be any like criminal charges and she's left the internet completely, which I feel like is the best thing to do after pulling that weirdass stunt. But like we'll never know her intentions. I think that it takes somebody real special to lie for that long amount of time and to put that much dedication into it because in the time that you spent putting all that work into pretending going to PA school, you could have actually gone to PA school.

It didn't have to be Duke. It could have been somewhere else that's just not as like prestigious or strenuous as a duke, but you still could have done it, mama. So, faking it all and putting all that energy into faking it all makes me ask, what did you actually want? Did you want to be a PA or did you just want the lifestyle, attention, accolades that come with being perceived as someone that works in the medical field?

Because those are two completely different things. And that is where these two stories converge for me. Simone has something to say that's a little deeper than the obvious. A big reason in my opinion why a lot of people will never reach or realize their dreams is because they cannot stand being in the middle. But the middle is the best part. What is the middle you may ask? Basically the middle is like to me where the magic happens.

Like the middle is so boring. It is a stage where it feels like you are wasting your time. you are toiling away, doing the same thing, building in the same way, feeling like you are you're continuously paddling, but you're not like moving anywhere. And a lot of business owners, successful people's, entrepreneurs, all of it talk about that time and how difficult it is to be in a space where you're putting in so much work and nothing is happening.

And then when things finally do take off, it feels exponential. How this applies to today's video? Well, Dejon offered people access to extraordinary wealth that they believe they would never have access to otherwise. Not only that, you don't even have to do much to get there. Just take out a little personal loan, give me a couple dollars, take all that money out of your savings, and I'm going to make it happen for you, baby.

And then Angel more obviously instead of actually doing the work, doing the hard thing, she just showed us a lifestyle that emulated the hard thing and that glamorized the process and skipped to a final destination that she never actually worked to get to. Both of them painting this bigger picture. What in the hell do you want? Not just them, but I'm asking you, the dear viewer, the same thing. Do you actually want the thing or do you just want to be perceived as someone that has the thing more forward?

Do you want the life or do you just want evidence of the life? And we're taking these massive scandals going on right now as our prime examples. But you don't have to be faking going to do PA school or running weird practice drills on the beach in your fake ass helmet for the hundth time having your homeboy film it. Sorry, I'm done with him. it. Anyways, it doesn't have to be all of that. It manifests for everyday people more often than not in my personal opinion.

And I think that the big reason why I feel like we have gotten so uncomfortable with being in the middle and why we've gotten so uncomfortable here, social media is a huge component of it. People have yet to really let the fact that social media is a highlight reel sink in. So most people on an everyday basis are seeing people live these lives that they genely feel like are not even within their reach and it makes you feel like a failure.

My nieces and nephews are in their young 20s and they are constantly feeling like they're not far enough. They're not doing enough. They're failing at life because they have social media to look to and they see people their age that have multiple cars and they're multi-millionaires and they're hanging out with this person and that person and going to premieres and doing this and flying on private jets and all of these things.

But it's like the thing about social media is that the extraordinary performs very well. Whether it be wealth, whether it be talent, whether it be outrage, like anything extraordinary is going to be pushed out further. Because the reality is is that everyday life is boring. And not just is everyday life is boring. Like the steps to take before you get to that extraordinary ending are boring. People are not as willing to show that because it's not going to get the clicks, it's not going to get the engagement, it's not going to get the views.

But I think that because we are so engaged with the online sphere, it can like rob you of the logical thought of knowing a regular 22-year-old is not a multi-millionaire. But then when you see it on your feed so many times, it with your version of reality and what you know to be logically true. Why am I still building? Why is this taking so long? Why did they get there before me? What is the next thing that's going to happen?

And going on a loop like that will get you to a point where you're looking for anybody to bail you out. You are looking for anybody to sell you a life, sell you a get out of jail free card, sell you some magic beans. I truly do understand and I know that some of y'all new here are sitting here watching me like, "Oh, this little influencer from that lives in LA in her little apartment doesn't get it." Mama, if you ain't been here with me for the ride, then you would not know.

Like I only went full-time back in 2023. I started posting content in 2017. So I realistically only know a life where paying bills doesn't like make me hyperventilate. That is a recent development in the past 3 years. So I spent the other 27 years of my life. I'm not going to say living paycheck to paycheck because you know I was I was a child at some point. I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck. But you you get my drift.

Like I deeply and intimately understand what it means to be in a position where like you are watching people do what you want to do and live what seems to be like so carefree and you cannot fathom why they get to have it and why you don't or why your hard work doesn't count. I'm happy with where I'm at right now. Don't get me wrong, but I have absolutely watched people that have started after me surpass me in numbers, views, opportunities, money, all of the things.

And I have absolutely wondered why does my path look so much different from theirs. Hear me. I don't think that thoughts like that are wrong or embarrassing. I think they're extremely human. And when I have those thoughts, I have real conversations with myself. It was basically nothing from 2017 to 2023. So in that 1 2 3 4 5 6 years of slow almost nothing coming from it growth I learned so much. That was my middle. I cannot describe to you how grateful I am for the lessons that I learned during that time period because they have become invaluable for me now that I have the life that I have.

I have the business that I have. There were so many times during that period where I had so many thoughts about like why am I doing this? Not that's not true. I never wondered why I was doing it. But I did have so many frustrations about like I just wish that things would pop off sooner, but I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going because I always had my eye on a prize. I have always been raised to understand that hard work is the way to get to what you want.

And my mom drilled into me that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. It was imperative for me to build a life I knew I laid the foundation for because if I'm laying a foundation for it, no one can take that away from me because a lot of people aspire fast success. They want to be an overnight sensation. But if you really observe people in the world that are overnight sensations, it can be a blessing and a curse depending on the team that's behind you.

This is going to be such a specific example and forgive me if you have no idea who I'm talking about. I think of Haley Welsh, Hakua girl, the girl that like went viral because of the street interview that she did, the whole like Hakua spit on that thing. She went so mega viral. She said that she walked into work and the video had like 6,000 views and by the time she walked out of work that same day, her life changed forever.

But the point is is that she ended up getting herself involved in a pump and dump scheme cuz she aligned herself with people that are basically allegedly from my understanding pretty known for moving that way in the crypto world. Now she's a part of a lawsuit to save my behind for legal reasons. Haley did not get sued herself. She was not named in the criminal complaint. She was fully cooperating as a key witness in the prosecution of the people that were directly at fault for the pump and dump scheme.

So, Miss Welsh did skate by without having actual like legal repercussions, but the repercussions to her career are undeniable at this point. And she's essentially lost everything because she grew so fast and she did not have the infrastructure to hold that growth up. She didn't have a middle. You could not pay me a million freaking dollars to tomorrow I wake up and somebody is offering me this extraordinary deal that again seems too good to be true.

And you think that I'm going to run and jump at it? Absolutely not. I now have a team around me. I have an ecosystem around me. I have a lawyer. I have a financial adviser. I have a brand strategist. I have an assistant. I have a manager. I have a campaign manager. I have so many people around me to talk to and to run these things past that have my best interest at heart. Because if I can trust you to help me run my business when hundreds of thousands of dollars are at stake, I definitely trust you to help me when the stakes get even higher.

Mind you, I've had to have hard lessons in this season that I have learned. And even though they were so hard in the moment and those those things have costed me money, costing me a lot of money, the thing that I held on to was thank you God for allowing me to learn this mistake while it was still this cheap. Slow success and getting comfortable in that middle is such a blessing because it allows you to develop the skills that you need to become the person that can actually uphold the life that you are asking for.

If I haven't made myself clear enough and the thing that I want y'all to walk away from this video, if nothing else, stop being so desperate to get out of and despising the process, the feeling of being in the middle. I know that I am speaking from a place of hindsight, but because of that, I do have insight. You see what I did there? About why this period in life is so valuable. That's why I'm harping on y'all being appreciative of your middle period.

And it's also why looking at Dejon's story and at Angel's story, why it's so easy for me to identify the connective tissue between them both outside of them both being like horrid scammers. Of course, of course, of course. Dejon sold people a shortcut and Angel sold people the lifestyle of what it's like to be at the destination. It is fake. It is false. is a veneer of success. And the thing that I want most for my girls that follow me here is not the facade of success.

I want y'all to really have it. I want for whatever you want out of this life, whatever you work for to be able to withstand pressure. You shouldn't be folding or building a lifestyle that is so easy to take away from you because you're not actually laying down solid foundation to build what you want. The middle is the opportunity to examine. It's the opportunity to question. It's the opportunity to learn, to be a student in the thing that you say you want so much.

And when you're in that middle, that's when you can make mistakes that are still survivable. Like I said, like I am just living in the testimony of being so grateful to have these mistakes that I am making, whether it be in business, in personal, whatever the case. while the stakes are still so low. Because where I'm going for the rest of my life, honey, oh, it's only going to get more complicated. It is only going to get more complex from here.

And I thank God for the mistakes that I made with $5,000 so that I don't have to make those same mistakes with $5 million. Don't let social media get you out of your hookup. The goal should not be to get there the fastest way humanly possible because as long as you keep working at it, as long as you don't let up and you pursue the life that you want relentlessly and with God's blessings, of course, it has no choice but to come to you.

They're serious. The only thing separating the person that you admire so much, admire their lifestyle and what they've been able to achieve. The only difference between them and you is the fact that they never gave up and they kept pushing through even in the moments where it felt like everything that they were doing was for no reason. But the difference between mice and men is the people that not just persevere through it, but learn from it. because I would much rather arrive at the destination late and very prepared than early and illquipped.

That is all I have for you guys today. Thank you so much for chitchatting with me and going on this journey with me that started off as two weirdo scammers taking the internet by storm and breaking it all the way down to something that we can actually learn from and use in our lives. Also, sorry if the footage looks pretty inconsistent. I was sitting down to get this footage together to send to my editor and realized that the intro and outro had absolutely no audio.

Silent. So, the intro and outro recorded like maybe like 6 or 7 hours after the original footage was recorded. So, don't mind that if my energy seems a little different and or if the footage looks a little different. I am trying my absolute best, but y'all know I'mma always show up for y'all. Period. And with that being said, make sure you leave your thoughts down below. Do you have anything to add to the discourse? Still be nice.

No victim blaming, please. Uh, to these young women because that sucks and getting scammed can quite literally happen to anybody. But let me know your thoughts on if you've had your own season of being in the middle, are you in it right now? That's all I have for you guys today. Thank you so so much for joining me. Make sure to like this video before you leave and I will see you guys super duper soon in the next one.

Bye guys.