Stars for Cash??
Hi everyone, although I am new here, I was just wondering if something like this was possible. I am unfortunately stuck and need to get money before christmas (short on rent money). I need to get about $1000 off Pokerstars. Problem is needing it before Christmas, i cant rely on any of their payment processors. i was wondering if anyone would want me to transfer the money to them in exchange for cash. if person is not local we could do email money transfer. for the help i am willing to give you the exchange rate as vig. (meaning $1000 US for $1000 canadian). if anyone is interested please reply
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Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . .
Good luck with this . . . Seriously
you ship first?
The odds of doing this any other way where the person receives the transfer first will likely save no time since any smart person would 1) avoid doing this and 2) require a long wait period to ensure the cash was legitimate and not from a stolen credit card. SInce this wait would be longer then a cashout process involving "checks" and "banks" the odds are not high you will find anyone to do it.
Hope this helped, happy holidays and remember if you get evicted sleep with the cardboard box so that it blocks the wind.
1) You create an account here and post a hi everyone post.
2) Shortly after you post an oh yeah let's do a $1000 transfer post. Ironically point 1 makes number 2 seem that much more of a scam
3) You only did a deposit of $50 but have received a lot of tiny transfers from other players. Now you have $1,000 to trade. Umm... Oh, receiving lots of transfers means your money is at ever greater risk.
4) You seem unwilling to do a simple check withdrawal which would take a few days. You claim "rent needs" but in Ontario there is no easy way to just boot someone for being a week late on the rent. Show Mr Roper your withdrawal notification so he can see you will have the money soon if he asks.
If you are legit, you have the amazing gift of doing every single step that a routine basic scammer would do, but if you find a sucker to do this you deserve their $1000.
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That would be the list of reasons I gave in an earlier post. All your "gee willikers mister" guilt trip attepts do is remind me of an item I left out
5) A scammer will lie in every way possible to make it seem legitimate
Anyway, odds are noone will do it. If you find a sucker then congrats. If you are somehow legit (heh, right) then just do a check withdraw, or continue with the story that you need rent money in the next day before your landlord Evil McScrooge boots you. If he tries, just use those big sad saucer eyes of yours welling with tears to warm his evil heart.
All the best.
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I will give you the benefit for this response and assume you are just very stupid, though my natural assumption is it is a scam, a bad one.
You send money first on Stars. Then meet a person in person to get cash. A few days later Stars takes back the money you sent because it was deposited with a stolen credit card or was a charge back from the credit card company.
Since the person who met you gave you the cash they lose as there is nothing they can do about it.
This is how a basic scam works. You saying you will meet in person does not change that, it is just a variation of the scam people pull when they tell others in person that they ran out of gas and need $10 for gas.
There is no way you can prove you are legit bnecause you are doing the exact behavior a scam artist would do. Hope this lesson helped and as I said earlier if you do find a victim to do the trade after all of this then you truly deserve the money.
Happy holidays, ho ho ho!
Of course if he was legit a simple thing like a moneybookers account would do all of this for free...
Yeah, good luck with this trade
Oh, and if the idea is to scam a scammer keep in mind that after he does a transfer to you and it gets charged back, your account will forever be linked to that transfer at Stars.
Have fun.
I thought it was my lucky day.
First the vig on this trade, then I had an inheritance from a relative in Mumbai. I didnt even know I had relatives in Mumbai!
If the sad little Timmy with teary eyes don't work, go on the offensive!!
Hint, a person who created an account here today , said hi, then immediately rushed to the oh yeah I need $1000 is more likely to be a troll then a geezer who has been here for years.
And true, not everyone is out to scam, but in the end the credibility of the parties is what is important. Why do you think you have any? You have no history here, and the only one who keeps saying you are honest is you. At least you could have created a second new account and posted "yeah, all my trades with this guy went perfect!" to pretend to have someone else vouch for you.
People scam to make money. Typically they can be found creating new accounts on message boards and immediately seeking to trade for funds via pay pal or between sites or in some cases in person. You kind of fit the profile.
If somehow I ever find myself in the same situation, which I highly doubt, the odds are I would approach people who would have already seen me establish a long term presence to back my request. A new account and a "hi guys" post does not count.
Guilt will not work, Pity will not work. Anger will not work. If you are genuine then learn from this and stop duplicating exactly how a scammer would operate.
Also, create a moneybookers account already if you are genuine.
People who scam lie. About everything.
A good scammer (not saying OP qualifies) will add elements to his story that seem valid like the credit card deposit amounts. They may even include things that are true as a means to mislead. People see something that is true so then assume everything is legit. This is how a con artists thrives.
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His story seems plausible enough but when held up to the light has glaring errors. It is always possible that this guy is legit, however, if he is then he is an absolute moron for continuing his requests.
And if the OP comes back, which I doubt, may I suggest the use of proper punctuation and capitalized lettering? It adds a bit to your legitimacy if you can properly construct a sentence.
lol. I was going to make the same point yesterday and had gone so far as to fix one of his posts with all my corrections in red text a la an english teacher (and boy was that page red). In the end, I decided against posting it though as the guy might not speak english as a first language and it could have come off as being unnecessarily cruel to a scamming dirtbag.
Heh, sorry no colorful story as an origin, rather just a lot of experience and interest in human behavior, of which this is sort of an interesting segment.
Similarly I did start a thread a while ago on the concept that some humans just could not improve at poker, even after thousands of sit and gos, which sort of amazed me.
Plus I enjoy revealing con artists, particularly horrible ones, for what they are, since as was suggested here a better one would just move on to better territory.
It amazes me that scammers (not saying that this guy is one or not) believe that people would actually fall for this stuff. I suppose it has to work though, most likely on the dementia ridden population, which if you think about it is really sick.
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pkrfce9...I think you meant to quote me instead. I know, it happens man.
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Sadly a lot of people fall for it. That is why there are so many scams. Some people have such a need to get money without working for it that they are very susceptible to these types of ploys. They don't think about the "if it is too good to be true, then it is" mentality.
I have seen first hand the people that will cash cheques and send the money (minus their "fee") and think nothing of it until the bank declines the cheque and they are left out thousands of dollars. They always say, "well it seemed so legit". They fail to see the scam like most people do. They aren't stupid, they just want free money.
/end sermon
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.