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- Apr 25, 2015
So this is a weird one. I don't even fully understand the story around this guy, to be honest but I'm going to try to fill you guys in. Trust me, this gets strange.
Full disclosure: I do have a personal stake in this weirdo, which will be explained below.
Cory Machado claims to be a soccer superstar and the owner of "Real Portugal FC." Unfortunately this soccer team does not exist and he does not play soccer, at any level. He also claims to own an energy drink company and a headphone company. The headphone company appears to be completely fictional except for a non-functioning website. The energy drink is a pyramid scheme that he seems to be involved in. Cory speaks with an American accent and claims to live in America though he appears to have some connection with Portugal.
He mainly expresses his spergery on his Twitter account. The first thing you will notice is that he has 1.3 million followers on his main account. This makes him the 638th most popular person on Twitter. He's even verified, strangely enough.
https://twitter.com/RealCoryMachado
In his effort to come off as a soccer superstar, he has an army of bots that both promote him and also make finding any "real" information about him an absolute nightmare:
He also has a "Fan" twitter where he endlessly retweets things like this:
https://twitter.com/machadocory
The official twitter for "Real Portugal FC" has 62K followers and frequently makes tweets about games that are never played. The tweets almost always involved Cory Machado, his dubious energy drink "Neon" or his apparently fictional headphones company "MJ Dubs."
https://twitter.com/RealPortugalCF
Headphones:
93K followers
https://twitter.com/DubsMJ
https://soundcloud.com/cory-machado
His soundcloud has 5 uploads. They all have in excess of 100K listens, and one his over a million. All the while he somehow only has 58 followers. On each upload, comments are left saying things along the lines of "great song" or "nice tune" despite the fact that none of the uploads are songs, rather they are interviews and speaking segments.
So he's just some moron on the internet that talks a big game and buys twitter followers, right? Well, allow me to tell you how this creep on my radar. One of my various side-hustles involves managing and marketing cam-girls. One of them had a few encounters with Cory Machado - he originally seemed to be a typical idiot who was willing to give gifts to pretty women, but things got kind of wild pretty quickly. Cory, having found the dox on this girl, sent someone to her house to "check" on her (Yes, police have been notified.) This person may have been Cory himself but we don't know for sure. On one hand, it is absurd to think that he'd pay or hire someone to do this, but on the other hand, he has clearly sunk a great deal of money into this image of himself he's created online.
When she confronted him later, he created a new e-mail account to respond to her and sent some bizarre screeds about how she needed to be "looked after" because he didn't approve of the neighborhood that she lives in. I can't post the e-mails that responded with, but they read precisely like a stereotypically unhinged and obsessed stalker.
After looking into this guy, not only did I find that his claims of fame and success are obviously false, but more interestingly, he's fooled some rather high profile people with his scam.
The most prominent example is probably Taeler Hendrix - you probably don't know the name, but she is moderately famous in professional wrestling circles. She looks this:
https://twitter.com/Taeler_Hendrix/status/740296386982334464
I don't know what the endgame is on this particular scam or what their "relationship" is, but she constantly retweets his stuff.
Dominic Rhodes, NFL player has also fallen for his scam:
https://twitter.com/RealCoryMachado/status/713151714224766976
Professional boxer Austin Trout:
https://twitter.com/NoDoubtTrout/status/536045995256061952
He also has some "testimonials" floating around - they look like the kind of thing that could be bought off of Fiverr.,
I'm still trying to figure this sperg out, but honestly I wanted to share this with you guys to get a few more eyes on this bizarre twitter hole.
Full disclosure: I do have a personal stake in this weirdo, which will be explained below.
Cory Machado claims to be a soccer superstar and the owner of "Real Portugal FC." Unfortunately this soccer team does not exist and he does not play soccer, at any level. He also claims to own an energy drink company and a headphone company. The headphone company appears to be completely fictional except for a non-functioning website. The energy drink is a pyramid scheme that he seems to be involved in. Cory speaks with an American accent and claims to live in America though he appears to have some connection with Portugal.
He mainly expresses his spergery on his Twitter account. The first thing you will notice is that he has 1.3 million followers on his main account. This makes him the 638th most popular person on Twitter. He's even verified, strangely enough.
https://twitter.com/RealCoryMachado
In his effort to come off as a soccer superstar, he has an army of bots that both promote him and also make finding any "real" information about him an absolute nightmare:
He also has a "Fan" twitter where he endlessly retweets things like this:
https://twitter.com/machadocory
The official twitter for "Real Portugal FC" has 62K followers and frequently makes tweets about games that are never played. The tweets almost always involved Cory Machado, his dubious energy drink "Neon" or his apparently fictional headphones company "MJ Dubs."
https://twitter.com/RealPortugalCF
Headphones:
93K followers
https://twitter.com/DubsMJ
https://soundcloud.com/cory-machado
His soundcloud has 5 uploads. They all have in excess of 100K listens, and one his over a million. All the while he somehow only has 58 followers. On each upload, comments are left saying things along the lines of "great song" or "nice tune" despite the fact that none of the uploads are songs, rather they are interviews and speaking segments.
So he's just some moron on the internet that talks a big game and buys twitter followers, right? Well, allow me to tell you how this creep on my radar. One of my various side-hustles involves managing and marketing cam-girls. One of them had a few encounters with Cory Machado - he originally seemed to be a typical idiot who was willing to give gifts to pretty women, but things got kind of wild pretty quickly. Cory, having found the dox on this girl, sent someone to her house to "check" on her (Yes, police have been notified.) This person may have been Cory himself but we don't know for sure. On one hand, it is absurd to think that he'd pay or hire someone to do this, but on the other hand, he has clearly sunk a great deal of money into this image of himself he's created online.
When she confronted him later, he created a new e-mail account to respond to her and sent some bizarre screeds about how she needed to be "looked after" because he didn't approve of the neighborhood that she lives in. I can't post the e-mails that responded with, but they read precisely like a stereotypically unhinged and obsessed stalker.
After looking into this guy, not only did I find that his claims of fame and success are obviously false, but more interestingly, he's fooled some rather high profile people with his scam.
The most prominent example is probably Taeler Hendrix - you probably don't know the name, but she is moderately famous in professional wrestling circles. She looks this:
I don't know what the endgame is on this particular scam or what their "relationship" is, but she constantly retweets his stuff.
Dominic Rhodes, NFL player has also fallen for his scam:
https://twitter.com/RealCoryMachado/status/713151714224766976
Professional boxer Austin Trout:
https://twitter.com/NoDoubtTrout/status/536045995256061952
He also has some "testimonials" floating around - they look like the kind of thing that could be bought off of Fiverr.,
I'm still trying to figure this sperg out, but honestly I wanted to share this with you guys to get a few more eyes on this bizarre twitter hole.
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