Speak Up About Scammers
Phil Galfond: Speaking Up About High-Stakes Thieves
Shakeeb Kazemipur accused of scamming players ~$300,000
I remember "Shak" from Alberta in the WPT events at Playground. With 20/20 hindsight, he was already being accused of scamming people <= 2014. He was chat banned by PokerStars then won the Sunday Million for $183,000 on April 2015. He continued his hot streak by winning LAPT Panama ME for another $180,112 the next month. GPI has him listed with $675,069 in online earnings + $248,956 in live.
I know a bunch of players from Western Canada, including those who contacted the police to arrest the WPT Fallsview chipleader on February 2015, but I had not heard of any money complaints against Shak as of last year's WPT CSC. To be honest, just like I accepted a personal cheque last week from a friend at WPT Fallsview, if he had asked me for a cash transaction then, I could have been one of his many victims. Players need to spread the word about scammers early and widely, so that more members of the poker community won't be victimized. Ideally, with forum members continuing to play in future WPT and WSOP events, there should be a site that lists players to avoid, instead of scattered in reddit or random webpages.
Here is a starting list of alleged scammers to watch out for, including links I know.
1) Fed aka Michael Gregory, StarsRegProblems.
2) Brad Booth: I think I posted before that he already tried to hustle me back during the 2009 WSOP.
3) Eli Elezra, Alexander Kuzmin & Artem Litvinov just outed by Shaun Deeb!
4) Dwyte Pilgrim
5) Chino Rheem
6) Erick Lindgren
7) Ben Warrington aka KidCardiff6
8) Nick Rainey: was subpoenaed and will be deposed under oath this month.
9) Shakeeb Kazemipur aka Shak, njåguar, Shakzilla on 2+2.
10) Samuel Touil
Shakeeb Kazemipur accused of scamming players ~$300,000
I remember "Shak" from Alberta in the WPT events at Playground. With 20/20 hindsight, he was already being accused of scamming people <= 2014. He was chat banned by PokerStars then won the Sunday Million for $183,000 on April 2015. He continued his hot streak by winning LAPT Panama ME for another $180,112 the next month. GPI has him listed with $675,069 in online earnings + $248,956 in live.
I know a bunch of players from Western Canada, including those who contacted the police to arrest the WPT Fallsview chipleader on February 2015, but I had not heard of any money complaints against Shak as of last year's WPT CSC. To be honest, just like I accepted a personal cheque last week from a friend at WPT Fallsview, if he had asked me for a cash transaction then, I could have been one of his many victims. Players need to spread the word about scammers early and widely, so that more members of the poker community won't be victimized. Ideally, with forum members continuing to play in future WPT and WSOP events, there should be a site that lists players to avoid, instead of scattered in reddit or random webpages.
Here is a starting list of alleged scammers to watch out for, including links I know.
1) Fed aka Michael Gregory, StarsRegProblems.
2) Brad Booth: I think I posted before that he already tried to hustle me back during the 2009 WSOP.
3) Eli Elezra, Alexander Kuzmin & Artem Litvinov just outed by Shaun Deeb!
4) Dwyte Pilgrim
5) Chino Rheem
6) Erick Lindgren
7) Ben Warrington aka KidCardiff6
8) Nick Rainey: was subpoenaed and will be deposed under oath this month.
9) Shakeeb Kazemipur aka Shak, njåguar, Shakzilla on 2+2.
10) Samuel Touil
Comments
Clearly just another method of gambling!
That being said, I'm not sure that posting names is that good of an idea. I understand the intent (to protect legit poker players/friends) but, it would be too easy to name someone as a fraud without any evidence. Some of this was discussed recently on the 2+2 poker podcast when Galfond outed Touil. It's one thing to warn your friends about a potential fraud...listing them on a public forum is another.
Libel anyone?...
What if the person is dead? Any point on outing them? Especially if you killed them?
i will post people who scam me as well as i treat others as i would like to be treated.
EDIT: just thought though, i don't think anyone here even knows my real name lol (my initials are not F.U. believe it or not)
FK U ME!
Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk
Thank you, Captain Shakespeare
Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk
The Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Shak: Shakeeb Kazemipur was already a cheater early on, and there were already many victims when he wrote this article.
Shak'd Continued: one of the many victims of the ~$342,765 total stolen by Shak. Some players already knew that he was a notoriously slow payer, but had still vouched for him.
"I discovered that by not speaking up, I potentially lit a lot more of stranger’s money on fire than I ever imagined."
SHAK?d Continued - Casino World Magazine
Who is the author? I don't see any names on the article.
I don't call it stealing. Close but not the same.
Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk
The third page of the article shows the many ways he used to scam players: borrowing, buying action but not paying, selling side action, ghosting, currency exchange, and fake bank deposits. If you don't like the word stealing, call them whatever you want, but don't call me late for dinner.
Living in Calgary now and have heard a decent amount about this over the last 4-5 months. Definitely at least some of what he was doing was fraud/theft with the fake bank drafts/cancelled deposits. Some people would wait until the money was in their bank account before transferring to him only to have the first transaction cancelled a few days later.
Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk