Scammer Caught at 888

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I began to play on 888 poker when i met someone on a forum that would give me $100 poker money for $60 neteller. All went well and i bought more from him to cashout more. It was pure profit.
Now i got an e-mail from 888 that the player i got the money from was fraudulent. And they dared to close my account. What can i do? And how can they just close my account?
Now it's just me who is getting scammed. Not the pokerroom and not the fraudulent player. It makes me sad that a pokerroom like 888 handle their players like this. I would give pokerplayers a negative advice to open an account there.
 
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When anyone offered me 100 for 60 all alarms would start ringing tbh.

I can't see that that could be a fair deal for everyone and would think it's probably a scam.

Sorry to hear that you lost your money but maybe you (and others) will learn from it.
 
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When anyone offered me 100 for 60 all alarms would start ringing tbh.

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^^ This. To be honest if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is. I'd check the Terms of Service but I would have thought that if a poker room suspects fraudulent activity then they are well within their rights to close down all accounts involved. You've been scammed and it's not the fault of 888.
 
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He send the money first. So i tought all was well.
How could i know that this guy was fraudulent.
They should not have let him transfer money in the first place.
 
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He send the money first. So i tought all was well.
How could i know that this guy was fraudulent.
They should not have let him transfer money in the first place.

if it sounds too good to be true it probaly isnt......hard to believe you are calling 888 a poker scam when you are the one who got scammed.It is not the poker site's fault
 
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888 Poker is a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, and I am sure have many safeguards in place to protect against money laundering, etc. They have cannot allow their services to be used for such activities. They were well within their rights to close your account.

As far as not letting the other guy transfer in the first place, I'm sure they didn't know about this until after you made a withdrawal request, which is usually when most sites perform security checks on your account. Lesson learned that you should never transfer funds with people you don't know and trust.
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
I got to hear how this guy got this so called "fraudulent" money.
He made like 100 accounts with the $8 free. Then played with it and when he got $100 he would send it to me or other people.
If the security of the site was good my problem would never have happened.
It's all their fault that guys like him can win/steal our money.
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
I got to hear how this guy got this so called "fraudulent" money.
He made like 100 accounts with the $8 free. Then played with it and when he got $100 he would send it to me or other people.
If the security of the site was good my problem would never have happened.
It's all their fault that guys like him can win/steal our money.
Have you tried communicating with them how you were taken in by this guy? I'm sure if what you say is true that they will drop the hold on your account after some investigation.
 
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Obviously the guy never cashed out himself, instead he found others who'd 'trust him'?. Think about it from 888's viewpoint > player multi-accounts, transfers to another to get the cash (I'd be thinking that the 'another' is friends with multi-accounter (or 'is' the multi-accounter) & has made arrangements with them to get the money they wouldn't be able to get otherwise.

To suggest that 888Poker are scammers is way out of line imo & I think the thread title here should be changed (at the very least). If anything, this just shows that 888Poker is the opposite of being scammers.

My experience with 888Poker has been Excellent!

Too bad you took a deal & trusted someone you didn't know. Question for you > what reason did the scammer give you for not being able to just cash it out for themselves??? I mean who in their right mind would be willing to sell for 60cents on the dollar? (basically paying $1.66 on the dollar for their own money).
 
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Thats the risk ur taking when swapping with unknowns
 
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If the security of the site was good my problem would never have happened.
It's all their fault that guys like him can win/steal our money.
And not at all your fault for not thinking - 'Why would this guy offer me 60 cents on every dollar he's made'? Let me forward you some e-mails I've received from some nice sounding Nigerian's looking for an account to put their millions in - all they need are your bank account details and they will do the rest. Should be right up your alley....
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
I got to hear how this guy got this so called "fraudulent" money.
He made like 100 accounts with the $8 free. Then played with it and when he got $100 he would send it to me or other people.
If the security of the site was good my problem would never have happened.
It's all their fault that guys like him can win/steal our money.

How do you know what he was doing? Sounds to me like you were well aware of what was happening - it is not likely you learned this from 888.
 
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Sounds like money laundering to me.

Tangerine's latest reply says it all. By the way Tangerine please send me a PM I would liek to get in on that ;)
 
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meh bad beat, you were a 70% fav
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
There's a good reason for that... it's because it isn't 888's fault.

Maybe instead of posting on internet forums how terrible 888 are, you should be negotiating with them for them to re-open your account? Obviously you wouldn't have been working with him to scam 888, and now you have been caught out you want to ruin their reputation, I'm sure that you're far too sensible for that!

How could i know that this guy was fraudulent.
Oh, wait... hold on a minute...
 
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Seems like you couldnt see past your greed when the scam was staring you square in the face.

Poker rooms arent banks. They arent obligated to refund ppl who are stupid enough to fall for scams.
 
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Wow, your greed got the better of you. No one's giving you 100 for 60 for nothing. You should have know it to be a scam from the beginning.

Best of luck.
 
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I am giving this thread 5 stars.
 
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I agree that they should not allow this guy to transfer the money to you if the money come from multiple $8 free accounts, but sometimes the security take a long time to act.
But you should know better too, no one would offer this great deal for free. Now, the only thing that rest to you is try to re-open your account.
 
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I began to play on 888 poker when i met someone on a forum that would give me $100 poker money for $60 neteller...

What was the back story that lead you to make this transaction?

Did he have many post on that forum? ... crazy stories from low count posters tend to make some of us skeptical.
 
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I'd be interested in hearing what Neteller does in a situation like this.
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
I got to hear how this guy got this so called "fraudulent" money.
He made like 100 accounts with the $8 free. Then played with it and when he got $100 he would send it to me or other people....

This thread is based on your claim on reality. Sources for the 'got to hear how' part?

I agree that they should not allow this guy to transfer the money to you if the money come from multiple $8 free accounts, but sometimes the security take a long time to act.
But you should know better too, no one would offer this great deal for free. Now, the only thing that rest to you is try to re-open your account.

So far is no proof anything came from multiple free accounts. If it were that easy we would all be doing it.

:D :ridinghor
 
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It's funny that everybody says it not 888's fault.
I got to hear how this guy got this so called "fraudulent" money.
He made like 100 accounts with the $8 free. Then played with it and when he got $100 he would send it to me or other people.
If the security of the site was good my problem would never have happened.
It's all their fault that guys like him can win/steal our money.

How do you know what he was doing? Sounds to me like you were well aware of what was happening - it is not likely you learned this from 888.
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OP wouldn't have gotten this info. from 888Poker... he got it from the guy who traded with him (if 'the guy' isn't actually him that is)
 
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