Even before the news of Tom Brady's retirement, any memorabilia linked to the New England Patriots quarterback was often worth its weight in gold.

According to a report from ESPN, one man who tried to take advantage of that has now been convicted of identity theft as well as two different counts of fraud after impersonating a New England Patriots player.

In 2017, Scott V. Spina came into possession of a 2016 New England Patriots Super Bowl ring after acquiring it from a player who had left the team. The then 20-year-old sold that ring for $63,000 then subsequently contacted the ring company and posed as the ex-Pats player. His request? Three more rings for friends and family, which he somehow convinced them to engrave “Brady” on them.

Spina then tried to sell those rings to his initial buyer, claiming that those were rings the Patriots legend had made supposedly for his nephews. But when that deal fell through, he ended up selling them to an auction house in New Jersey for $100,000, eventually fetching a final price of $337,000 at auction.

Unscrupulous behavior aside, it's pretty impressive that a man not even of legal drinking age was able to pull of a scam of this magnitude while invoking the most high-profile player in the NFL.