Crosby caught up in Internet scam

Shoutout to our friends over at HockeyPatrol.com for bringing this story to our attention.

Sidney Crosby, one of the classiest players in NHL history and a man who has spent his entire career crafting a squeaky clean image, is being used by some scummy Internet scammers as the phony spokesman for a phone business venture.

Without promoting these scumbags too much, I'll simply leave the images below for you to check out:

I mean... come on. 

Who falls for this garbage!?

That first image is so ridiculously Photoshopped that if you fall for a dumb scam like this, well... maybe you deserve what's coming to you?

Honestly, I see this kind of garbage all over X.com (Formerly Twitter) since Elon Musk's takeover and rebrand of the social media platform. There are reports that X.com is losing millions a month since the rebrand, mostly due to major companies removing their advertising from the platform. So now, instead of seeing ads for major brands like Coca-Cola, Ford, Amazon and Home Depot, we see junk ads for scummy Internet scammers based out of India, Pakistan or Indonesia. Honestly, I hope that the platform can get this garbage under control, but I don't have high hopes. What seems more likely is that X.com will continue to squeeze as much juice out of itself as it can before it eventually runs dry, shrivels up and rots away.

Maybe that's a bit hyperbolic, but it's the path that Twitter (Forget it, I'm not using the name X.com anymore) is headed down. Unfortunately for us, NHL hockey fans, Twitter is the main social media platform for news and rumors about the sport that we all love. NHL insiders like Elliotte Friedman and Frank Seravalli break all of the NHL's biggest news stories on Twitter and it's been that way for well over a decade. I remember in the early days of the NHL on Twitter, you'd have to refresh Bob McKenzie's page like a madman to get the latest news on trade deadline day or the July 1st 'free agent frenzy'. Now Twitter is a website full of joke/parody accounts, scam traps and outright porn. Just a junk platform...