You still think this @sshole ever thought of you as a friend? Are you f'ing kidding me? From Day 1 this guy set out to take every penny he could from you and nothing else. If the two of you had been walking to the casino together and someone had come up and shot you dead on the spot. He would of just kept on walking not even calling an ambulance or calling the police so they could have a description of the suspect. And the only thing he would be thinking is F'ck! I guess I won't be getting any more money out of him.... God damnit!

And you couldn't bring yourself to call the police on him? If it were me I would hire someone to collect and I would tell them they could have an extra 20% of the cut if they mame him cut off a testicle or something, but F'ck that dude he never gave a ***** about you man. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!

This isn't gibberish at all; in fact, it reminds me somewhat of Kerouac. It makes it very clear what happened, even if not stylistically polished.

I could write this into a short story in a week and into a novel in a month. I'd have to make some stuff up, though. 2p2 writing contest?

So basically you toured around Europe for a couple of weeks with some guy with a serious gambling problem who you didn't even know and kept giving him your money and letting him blow it left, right and center.

And people wonder how Sarah Palin is so close to getting into the white house. Man americans are dumb.

Just because you want to maximize your chances to get your money back that you've lent someone does NOT mean you need to go into ******-mode and stop thinking about what you're doing, or what the other persons intents are.

Instantly I have to say I feel the amount is too small for these people to get involved.

Im so sorry to hear what happend to you. Losing 22k or so...

Im from Swe and I actually play alot Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm (The Casino you went to with Robert). Now I have a great plan! I can get you the money back! All you have to do is to transfer med $ 150 to my FTP account and I sort it out! (Promise)

Let me now asap, I need the money within 24h to pull it off.

Just trust me...

ya, think Fargo

looooooool apparently robert is hanging around with william fry jonny lodden and dario!! somebody warm them if they know them or know any of ther contacts

http://www.pokerstars.tv/movies/41J/...fry-day-3.html



http://www.pokerstars.tv/movies/42D/...nal-table.html


Robert is the one with cap !

Robert that idiot have also scam me on some money, but obv not this big size, i hope someone would fix him

He's th 1 railing him in th black hat, licking his lips no doubt!

read your story, sucks.

just curious what type of dog cost you $3400?

It really is disgusting that we all have to be so paranoid these days since so many ppl cant be trusted. It makes me very sad, seriously. Good luck primordial, and props to u for being a stand up guy thru all of this.

already warned dario a few days ago, dunno will fry's contacts tho =/

pure breed English Bulldog

90 posts per page? step your game up

oh the irony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Just so you know who you are likely to be dealing with. I used to have one as a boss and know how manipulative and destructive they can be. Just to give you an idea, several of my colleagues needed psychotherapy and medication after they quit their jobs after being abused for years. I was lucky to get out quickly after I realized how sick this person was, and even I waited until he was on vacation so I could hand my resignation to someone else. I was that scared.

The people in this thread criticizing OP are the ones who are naive, not him. There are people out there to whom others are only a game.

I know this is truth because...hmm...I told me so.

There are people who go to great length just to please other people and not a make scene, no matter if the turd next to them is having sex with their girlfriend or stealing their money. It's naive and weakness of character not to stand up and say "no, Im not gonna be treated like this". These hys hys people are the main prey for lowlifes and conartists because they always fold mentally when they are looked into eye and told some random s**t because they want to believe so much that they just would't have to be in confrontional situation and go for ride to find their balls.

*Having a image of guy looking like Rick Moranis following shady looking guy and mumbling something along lines of "Im not really sure of this, you really need 5k so you can withdraw that 20k?"*

A+++++++++ would read again

Made me sick to my stomach, crazy story.
Hope you recover, GL and keep going!

tyvm , luckily for me it has been a pretty good start, so I can only hope it keeps going like that

TerribleNit, I don't think you understand. Sheep, yes, but almost everyone is in the right circumstances. People like Robert should still not be tolerated and even if the OP is his "prey" as you call it, he needs all the support he can get.

Psychopaths (the real kind) are unbelievably good at playing with other people. They know what strings to pull to make other people behave in ways which seem completely irrational to outsiders. They study you from the get-go and find out what your fears, dreams and deepest values are. They know exactly what to say and when to say it. I've seen highly intelligent, nice, family men degrade into depression and paranoia. I've seen someone pretty much give away his business and life's work to one. I've heard two different women lie in court because he made them believe it's the right thing to do. And, unfortunately, at least one person was last seen step into his vehicle.

A lot of things in the OP's story sound very familiar to me, just in a different setting. He did what he did because he thought it was the right thing to do. Robert made him think that by lending him more money, he'd be more likely to get the old debt back, as silly as it seems on the surface. Mind you, OP didn't lend him all the money after 10 minutes but over a relatively long period of time, during which Robert constantly manipulated him into thinking they are good friends.

And everyone thinks they are immune. I know I did, and I know many of my colleagues did. I had even studied about the subject, and it still took me almost two years to recognize who I was dealing with. It wasn't until one day I found myself suspecting that my own mother was trying to con me. It was a scary moment which kind of snapped me back to reality and made me realize someone had been planting thoughts in my head. What made it even scarier was when I started noticing how methodically he used suggestive language, anger, friendliness, tones of voices etc to do what he was doing. He made a ton of promises he never kept. He'd ask really stupid questions, that he would obviously know the answer to, to throw off suspicion (a lot of people thought he simply had a bad memory). I even started to notice things like fake phone calls; he'd act as if he were buying a sail boat or another company and things like that in order to make people think he is rich etc.

Write book about story. Would also definetely make better movie than 21 with your casino trips around Europe, Roberts excuses for loans, stories about failed bank transfers and at the end your gf crying if strange country without money while you realize truth in Sweden (without money of course) -> real life drama.

Hope that you got your money back, but story like that should be worth more that 30K$.

Link to this thread was posted in one of the finnish forums. I read the whole story just now and wow, this guy must be a good talker. He looks like a pussy though.

But seriously, you should definitely go to court with this. I know a little about the similar case happened here in Finland earlier this year and it's going to court if I remember right. The scammer found out his "friend's" password to one of his poker accounts and removed all the money, almost 4000€. Luckily the victim noticed that very next day and called the police. This is what you should have done in the first place.

At least you would get the Stars-money back.

Hope everything ends up well and you get your money back.

If you don't get your money back you should definitely travel to sweden, find this guy and beat him up bad....thats the only way to get closure to this thing. This guy should not get away from his actions unpunished.

Btw, why don't you sell his debt to swedish Hell's Angels?

Wow... read that over my lunch break, quite a story, entertaining to say the least

It doesn't cost that much homie. I've sean requests earlier in the thread about getting this dude taken care of. He lives in Jokkmokk.. but if he would stop by Stockholm and somebody wanted to pay up 5k SEK (aprox $600), I could get 5 crazy Somalians to rape him and piss on him. For like 600 $. Isn't that a pretty +EV deal?

EDIT: Im 100 % serious.