Fantasy football

Last week, The Spectator reported on Russell Hantz, a three-time contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor, scamming innocent fans of the show out of their fantasy football winnings. We confirmed via social media messages and Venmo transactions that Hantz had failed to pay out winners in at least two fantasy football leagues he had helped organize — one in 2018 and one this season. Now, more people are coming forward to say that Hantz took their money too. Three members of a second fantasy football league Hantz organized this year all confirmed to me that the league's winner never got paid. As was the case in other leagues, Hantz recruited someone else to be the commissioner, but collected all league dues via Venmo. When it came time to fork over the money, Hantz ghosted.

It turns out that my personal axiom "Never trust a man in a fedora" remains undefeated. I recently finished the latest season of Survivor, the long-running CBS reality show, and decided to hop on Reddit to see what other fans thought of the finale. Amid the season analyses and contestant drama was a rather disturbing allegation: according to one Redditor, one of Survivor's most infamous villains was scamming people out of thousands of dollars. Russell Hantz is an oil worker from Texas who has competed on Survivor three times. He has never won, but has twice been voted America's fan favorite contestant, earning him $200,000 in winnings.