Bought a lot of books on 07/09/2009 from IOwnlyPlayAtStars. He said he would ship them that day, and supposedly did. I received a screenshot containing USPS shipping data (the screenshot and the link to it have now expired) along with a message to one of the mods about the shipment being lost by USPS (I requested a week long temp ban at the time and he panicked about it).

He said he'd talk to his friend at the post office about it, and evidently they said the shipping info said "Processed" and the folks at the PO had had thought "it's an Atlanta based code" in spite of the tracking data saying it was processed in Ohio but nothing else.

I messaged him in December but received no response, and he has been on the forum recently.

I'd consider him shady until proven otherwise.

Alright so my experience with Carlos Alberto Santiago / Theyaremine (Pokerstars). Started a stable a few months back and he was one of our lower risk horses so I didn't check into his history much (mistake obviously). He had played a bazillion micro stake DONs and we signed him up to play $20 DONs on Stars.

During a two month period he played 174 games despite a strict 750 game/month minimum we had made clear in the contract. After the first month of no volume I asked him what the deal was and he made up some excuses. Whatever he seemed like a nice guy and I gave him another month. Same thing. I decided to cut off the stake. My partner was the one who talked to him to ask him for the money back and end the stake. He was very resistant and finally said he would send back the money ($1,000). He never did. At this point I started doing some research and realized he had been banned on a couple of staking web sites and had received poor feedback in this very thread. I started getting suspicious but wasn't too concerned because he had been sending me screenshots of his cashier and I was 95 percent sure he still had the money. Anyway he ceased communication for a few days despite some emails and then I decided to expedite the process and start a web site about his indiscretions with a picture of him on there. Next day I get insta messaged when I sign on. He is upset because I said in one of my follow up emails we would extend the stake (this was only a ploy to make sure he didn't run off with the money and hopefully we could get it back somehow at a later date). When I told him to give the money back he was still resistant but eventually we agreed he would send back $500 and then grind the rest of the month to try and build a roll for himself.

A couple weeks later he messages me and says he is down some money while grinding and offers a proposition I gave a long time ago, sending $800 (total) and being done with it. At that point I wanted to wash our hands clean of this guy who is, if not a scammer clearly an untrustworthy person and a huge pain in the ass. I am 99 percent certain he is posting on 2+2 under the alias arcticmonkey (theyaremine was banned back in March of 2009). It looks like he is staying clear of the staking forum though.

TL;DR - Carlos Alberto Santiago / Theyaremine (Stars) is not someone you want to stake or do business with.

hey if you ever need someone to look into possible stakees to see if they have bad rep elsewhere, shoot me a PM i love googletarding these guys, and i love this thread

faarcyde- saying theyaremine was banned back in March of last year yet you staked him a few months back leads me to believe you were in contact with him here under a different name. was that in fact arcticmonkey or was all of the contact offsite via email?

he emailed our staking address and then i contacted him via skype (his skype name was arcticmonkey with some numbers after it). i noticed the new name while browsing the STT forums and seeing the name arcticmonkey post some strategy threads for DONs (which is what we staked him for).

Thanks. Taken care of. If anyone spots a likely match to him again let us know.

Update: Dude hasn't been active on 2p2 or stars, but he has started to play on tilt again under xxthegoatxx. Actually had a couple hundred dollar score on there the other week. Watch out for him and if you see him at the tables tell him he's a scamming scumbag. Thx.

Banned his account here. He'd been inactive for so long and you had posted several times about it so he had ample opportunity to resolve it.

Appreciate it. Yeah he had every chance to make good and never did. Don't think I'm getting anything back, just figured the more times his Tilt sn showed up, the easier it'd be for someone else to find it in a search and not get scammed.

bought 4000 FTPs off EdmontonRounder, fast transaction, awesome communication, great guy to work with!!

ahahahahaahhaaahh

i smirked at his comment but when i saw yours i started dying

possible to have it removed by admin? bad idea to browse 2+2 when baked lol

Name: Jacob Trudell
2p2: Jakejackjake
pokerstars: jakejackjake
AIM: Jakebenimble14
Skype: jakejackjake
Location: Manchester/Connecticut

I staked him since May 09 with initial stake of $750 for SS SNGs.

He ran good first and both took $750 out in July 09. I reinvested $250 of this, so the total stake was now for $1000.
Then he went on a long downswing from which he recovered until November where his balance was a bit less than $1200 from which he still owes me almost $1100.

In November he asked me if he could play some CG on his own money which i agreed to. He lost a bit in these but nothing too terrible.

Then he came with some strange story about someone accusing him for being underaged and Stars investingating his account.

I havent heared from him since mid Nov, he never logged into AIM/skype after that.

He started playing CG and some micro tourneys on Stars again in January.

Now he blocked his OPR though, but according to PTR he won a little in CG.

His last post on 2+2 is a strange "permanently please. seriously please ban me permanently" in the ban me thread http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55/about-forums/ban-me-ban-me-204579/

Hmm strange.

Given that he hasn't even logged onto 2p2 since 11/10 even though he wasn't banned at the time I'm just going to go ahead and ban him. No point in attempting contact I suppose.

He can be found elsewhere on the internet, looks like he rolled you though. Sorry.

Just wanted to clear "lilman2636's" name....he has since gotten in contact with me and payed me everything he owed. He seems like a very solid and trustworthy character.

Shane aka "thegr8str8"

Just wanted to say sorry and thanks to shane...glad we cleared up that stake and now we can both move on

good stuff

*** The following is negative feedback about a stake ending on bad terms, but I am not accusing this person of being a scammer. ***

Name: Christian Hoff Olsen
2+2: AngryWhopper
FTP: h1R0nAKAMURA
Prima/Gnuf: UcanTILTmuch
Skype: christian.hoff1
Location: Bergen, Norway

On January 25th, I transferred Christian $150 in two installments to play $10NL rush poker on FTP. He did not check in with me on the designated time (first Monday after the stake began). He failed to reply to my next two emails, didn't login to Skype, etc.

When I finally emailed him that I believed he was scamming me and that I would have to post about it, he wrote back a one-sentence note that he had lost the money. I then asked him for tracking software and cashier page screenshots documenting that this money was lost legitimately as part of the stake.

He didn't reply to this request, so I emailed again threatening to out him, and he finally sent a screenshot of a $0 FTP account balance with no out-going transfers, but didn't enclose the requested tracking software screenshot.

In summary, I'm not accusing this guy of being an outright scammer, but our stake ended on very bad terms and I would strongly recommend that others decline to stake him.

was playing 200hunl recently according to ptr
http://www.**********************/fu...s/h1r0nakamura

He's now restricted from applying for any stakes/using the marketplace or transfer threads until he replies.

1) salomgis

2) We used paypal

3) aim=myps2silver,email=myps2silver@hotmail.com

4) Looks like he bought a WoW account from me with a stolen Paypal account. The payment was drafted back to the account and Paypal said the user didnt initiate the transaction.

Trex scammed me. Details ITT:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...ounter-720089/

Despite not having posted in over a month on the site as of minutes ago he was using his PM capacity here.

He's been told via PM he cannot use the marketplace or transfer threads or PMs to initiate/complete any transaction until it's publicly addressed and taken care of. This post will be edited to reflect any future change in that status.