Scammer? - Page 3

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On January 09 2010 09:07 Nadeem wrote: Does anyone know a cheap alternative for coaching? Or just a cheap coach? I believe exalted's theory, cause i'm a beginning/mainly losing/breakeven player at NL25 which is actually quite bad. I realize this, and I also realize that i have a lot of leaks but it don't really know which ones. I feel a coach might def help me improve but 50$/h is like 2 buy ins an hour I lose and I really can't afford this, but I guess this is a std price? If anyone has a cheaper alternative, wants to give me a sweat or knows a cheap but decent coach, pm me we can talk on skype/msn.

LOL !

ugh, really shitty that a thread like this just has to pop up every once in a while in this community.

fk scammers

exactly, there have been cases where Stars seize the funds because the money was obtained through card fraud and stuff.

I guess a raised level of awareness in the community is all that can be done about this issue then. Maybe have a stickied post in this forum with a few general guidelines to doing transfers. If smaller increments become a standard in this community then I'm sure it will save some people a few dollars a long the way. A stickied post might make someone go,"Hang on a sec that dude has 3 posts maybe I won't use them to transfer".

i thought it was common sense

A person would need to have a really solid reputation on this site for me to send money first. Transferring 1st to some random dude bloggin...

500 is pretty cheap for this sort of lesson considering u mighta bought florida swampland in a few years

i dont think any reputable member would ask to send first

On January 09 2010 22:46 Night[Mare] wrote: i dont think any reputable member would ask to send first

um, what?

I dont understand these ppl... i would feel so bad if i had done something like this, and only for 500$ wtf
Where's your self esteem?

well if he does continue playing...everyone should add him on their PTR buddy list and harrass the hell out of him every opportunity. scum...

On January 09 2010 21:40 Baal wrote: i thought it was common sense

It is common sense, but scammers often talk/asks about things which makes you feel you've known them x10 longer than you already have. May sound primitive, but it's not that hard to get scammed, the feeling is like if someone you really DO trust online scams you.

yea, i could've gotten scammed for my whole roll when i send my 1k roll to norwegian guy i just met to move from ps to noiqpoker, so foolish of me, luckily he didn't

anyways

On January 09 2010 20:49 Mudd10 wrote: i send first but it must be a poster with more then 1k posts

i wouldn't trust in 1k posters so easily, i can trade with you if you want to, i have pokerstars chips

And what about long time LP members ? Might be a little harder to get out of it since we know them a little better than the average scammers and won't go away so easily ?

i don't think nadeem will ruin his great reputation here at lp.
plus i think 500 is like peanuts to him, like 500buyins?

Before you do a trade try to do two things

1) Verify that the person you are transffering with is a winning poker player by inputting their screenname at http://www.pokertableratings.com

2) Try to find a person where the amount that you are trading is inconsequential to the stakes they are playing. For example, 500$ trade with someone that plays 200nl has a way higher success rate than trading 500$ with a guy that plays 25nl.

Follow those two steps and you should be okay.

**post counts are meaningless

Dont think I ever sent 1st unless it was some1 I knew played stakes such that the amount wouldnt be a big deal, and even then didnt sent the whole thing at once. I hate to say things like oh its your fault you shouldnt have trusted him, because its obviously the rat fuck scammers fault, but you should be more careful dude

On January 10 2010 02:20 sniderstyle wrote: **post counts are meaningless

Truth. I've got nearly 700 posts but I'd bet you nobody here knows anything about me, because I've posted so infrequently. I've been around since the start of LP.net, so it's pretty easy to have a somewhat decent amount of posts but still not really be a significant part of the community. For the most part, don't trust people unless they have as much to lose from scamming you as you do from being scammed.