The FF-Files: Fiction (Dreams in Digital)

“She’s guilty by design! ‘Cause it’s better than nothing. Now that control is gone, it seems unreal, she’s dreaming in digital. She’s nothing more than fiction!”

– Orgy, “Fiction (Dreams in Digital)”

Ever since the FF-Files series came back around in 2021, we have taken great pains to expose fraudsters, hucksters and charlatans when possible. Whether that means bringing to light forged documents, nonexistent events or a guy that actually made it to the UFC before the bottom fell out, we’ve seen it all. Or so we thought.

In March 2024, we received a request to create a profile for a Japanese woman named Sumiko Nakano, an amateur fighter that already had a page on multiple other databases…