This recaps some of the stuff I alluded to before about Te'o:
http://collegespun.com/big-east/notr...x#.UPguzqGjegP
I also think there's a fair amount of stuff to back the "duped" theory. The total lack of a plan, for instance. Because "Lie and cross your fingers that nobody involved in the sports journalism profession bothers to look into your story" really isn't much of one.
Or like how Deadspin says that this Lennay Kekua persona goes as far back as 2008, meaning we can safely assume that it wasn't created with the purpose of drumming up publicity for Te'o. Four years in advance? It was designed to scam people. And if Te'o was one of the victims, a woman would have had to be involved... and Reagan Mauia claims he met a woman (through Tuiasosopo, no less) claiming to be her. There's your woman on the phone.
I've been wrong many times, but I'm going with duped + shamelessly took advantage of the media's interest in her death, or duped + too embarrassed to admit to his family and everyone that he never actually met her.