There’s a first time for everything.

Some high school students got the best of one college football recruiting website recently. A fake prospect tweeted out offers, and it fooled Rivals.com, too.

Fake recruit “Blake Carringer” — listed at 6-foot-6, 315 pounds from Knoxville, Tennessee — tweeted out offers from Alabama and Georgia, among others, and he was instantly made a three-star from Rivals.com. 247Sports Composite Rankings also listed Carringer as a 3-star, as it uses Rivals.com’s — and other recruiting sites — rankings for the Composite. It’s worth noting, however, that although 247Sports Composite Rankings showed him in the database, it hadn’t evaluated the prospect in its own rankings.

An Instagram post from Elite College Football shed light on the situation:

 

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247Sports Founder Shannon Terry took to social media to explain 247Sports Composite’s new policy following the incident.

“Yday a national recruiting service rated a prospect that doesn’t exist,” Terry wrote. “Unfortunately, that service’s public data contributes to the 247 Composite. While appalling, I am not surprised.

“Ironically, it was the same lil brother service that took shots at 247 on NSD,” Terry continued. “In order to insure that never occurs again neg impacting the Composite, 247 has a new protocol where prospects are no longer given a Composite rating w/o also having a 247Sports rating.”

The account associated with the fake recruit has been deactivated.