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A Twitter account opened in the name of former Patriots cornerback Asante Samuel continues to Tweet away, even though it has been identified by Samuel's current team, the Philadelphia Eagles, as phony.

Last weekend, the Philadelphia Daily News reported that Samuel had predicted a Super Bowl championship for the Eagles using Twitter: "this is about to be a superbowl winning season fareal," he supposedly said. But the newspaper was forced to post a retraction of sorts when an Eagles spokesman said that the account in Samuel's name, and another under the name of Eagles teammate Trent Cole, were phony. The team said that neither Samuel nor Cole used Twitter.

This hasn't stopped the Samuel wannabe from continuing to Tweet his or her imaginings of Samuel's childhood in California, his workout routine and his thoughts about defensive coordinator Jim Johnson (who has taken a leave of absence as he is treated for cancer).

As ProFootballTalk.com's Aaron Wilson points out, the cases involving Samuel and Cole are not the first of a media organization being duped by someone purporting to be a professional athlete posting on Twitter. Members of the Dallas media and Wilson himself followed a Twitter feed supposedly belonging to the Cowboys' DeMarcus Ware before discovering that it, too, belonged to an impostor.

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