For a change of pace... whatever happened to Ahsan Ali Syed? (Google translation of German-language article). As far as I can tell from that he's still on the run. But one of his former employees parlayed her vast experience with sports clubs into becoming CEO of Nepalese Cricket.
I've done a lot of stupid things on this forum, but defending WGA on the grounds that "Terry is a millionaire, he wouldn't be dumb enough to fall for an obvious scam" is, in the age of Trump, unlikely to be beaten.