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Originally Posted by augie_
holy ****, gingers strike again
very surprised he did this, seemed like a nice enough gent and always posted helpful stuff. guess he was building up scam equity
6/19/2009
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From: Granny
To:
somedude
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Senjitsu
i actually really respect senjitsu. we exchange PM's now and then. however, i just saw this (thread entries) and wanted a confidential second opinion. read, then i will ask
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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...thread-501206/
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
so theyre looking for the payer name on a transaction that never came?
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
when theyve rolled out deposit and or wd options in the past its been based on lifetime vpps, starting at like 250K i think and working back from there.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
it looks like they lowered the threshold.... ehceck deposits, which had been previously unavailable to me, are available now (im not looking ot deposit, just checking)
had my roommate try (he has barely any play at all) and still unavailable to him so theyre definitely doing it incrementally.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
im pretty sure its ppl with less than 1k lifetime vpps.
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Originally Posted by poker degen
how do you kno this ?
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
because i know a couple of ppl with very few vpps that cant deposit and know someone with just over 1k who can
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Originally Posted by MicroBob
Awesome sample size on that one dude.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
yeah, but i know that in every other case where pokerstars has gradually introduced or reintriduced a method its been based on lifetime vpps. it could be lower than 1k... the next lowest person i know is like 200.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
the only people i know who dont have it back are people who never made a deposit (ie, the account was funded by a p3p xfer.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
my roommate had the same situation you were talking about and successfully deposited like 10 mins ago.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
^^^
see what i did there?
ok, why is it that the first thing that comes to my mind is that this could mean he has several dummy accounts with different banking info and friend's names etc. the accounts would seemingly be low activity so they are probably more about moving money. i mean, who knows several people with specific minimum VPP's that he could email and ask to check if they can e-deposit? not me. also, senjitsu quit law school in his 3rd year to be a poker pro. i don't know if that makes it more likely, or less likely that he may be up to no good though.
is this hypothesis crazy? am i too paranoid?
these are obv. rhetorical questions that i would never pursuit or even hint at, but i think you are the best at reading between lines. am i completely bonkers for suspecting this??
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6/19/2009
From: somedude
To: GrannyMae
SUBJECT: Senjitsu
There are bound to be a few top-notch guys here who are the front-men for their scam industries. I found one once, but they don't often make mistakes. He showed off his unusual "winnings" with graphs, before he discovered that we can search for photobucket accounts. A known scammer or two also used the same photobucket account.
It is virtually impossible to tell who they are for us. The sites should be able to see where all the scammed money goes and follow lines that way. Whether they do or not, I have no idea. I hope they try.
There are so many small scams as well as the occasional big ones that I find it hard to believe that the few guys who do them are simply gambling degenerates. We're always told, oh the money's gone - lost to unknown other players. That just seems so weird to me.
[We] have two theories.
One is that they play properly in real ring games with another account of theirs and that other account picks up a genuine portion of winnings from the losing play of the stolen money - maybe only 20 cents in the dollar - but it's now good money.
The other is that they try to punt the money up to a significant amount with a few big bets before they chip-dump to one of their other accounts, probably, again, in a legitimate game.
But who knows really?
[WE] have no reason to suspect senjitsu; but nothing would surprise me. I certainly do suspect a few of our big names here, but only because their IP addresses keep crossing paths with scammers. Not from their posts.
The serial scammers are making serious amounts of money.
[We] often think of closing the transfer thread down, but then transfers will go underground and more will be scammed, imo. Thankfully, with the thread and its rules and tips, mainly only total dickheads get scammed by the obvious likely scammers. Anyone can go rogue at any time, and it's impossible to spot those ones.
Senjitsu seems to have lots of friends during this time period that are having cashout problems:
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
a friend of mine reports that theyre not letting him cashout by wire for more than 1K... hes filling his info and getting a popup that says 1K max.... anyone else having htis issue.
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Originally Posted by Six Finger Nate
This sounds like your friend has it backwards. I did a 5k wire yesterday, processed last night.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
hes requesting 2k... getting a popup that says hes limited to 1K per wire.
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Originally Posted by senjitsu
ok i got it figured out... apparently theres a dead zone between 1k and 2500... if you request an amount greater than 1k but less than 2500 it tells you theres a maximum of 1K.