Haven't got anything meaningful to add, sorry.

But he added me on skype ages ago and this story is pretty disgusting. Really hope everything works out for you.

Gl.. paddygos news article looks like it will help a lot, pro stuff

I think he added everyone tbh. I don't even remember telling anyone on 2p2 my skype, and he somehow added me...

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"

Can't remember who said that, just thought it was relevant. Nothing personal to zachaser though.

Yeah, I was absolutely impressed/shocked at how many players he had managed to add on his skype/facebook and all the deals he was trying to get involved with... Poker player relocating, money transfers, staking, setting up VPNs, video site memberships, website creating, etc.

Which is why it is absolutely vital to spread the word about his shadiness, I know a few people who were extremely close to sending him funds on the basis of his "connections".

As for ways of solving this for Ajay, obviously I doubt violence is a solution. I think the first step is making this thread grow and figuring out the extent of his shady activities. Then probably contacting his family and friends via social networks, in a civilized fashion, and see where that goes. From what I understand there is a lot of money in the family.

Maxi Stochyk should probably feel the need to work something out at some point, given the amount of private information that he has given out (I'm not even speaking of what his ex flatmates can put together, more what he has helpfully posted on his Facebook wall). I've personally compiled a list of FB profiles of 150 contacts of his, including quite a few Stochyks. And that's only part of what we've got and shall be using in the near future if he doesn't come to his senses.

^^People say how poker is dog eat dog etc, and morals don't exist, but we always see the best of the community after a scam.

Always nice to know that even if I or anyone else screw up and misplace my trust, the community at large is willing to help, which isn't even true for irl crime. We as a community have pretty much made the EV of scamming worse than the EV of being honest (long term obv), or as close as possible for anyone, and tbh this is as much as we can do.

It's not all doom and gloom guys, and staking is still gonna happen and run smoothly the majority of the time.

I have been frequent to the Travel thread...this guy was posting like a maniac about starting poker houses all over the world, annoyed the **** outta me. I was really surprised seeing ppl adding him to skype one after another. Hope u get the money back tho

fyi he also "borrowed" $10 from a guy on my skype lol

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Really stupid from him...

With all his infos available, it could cost him much more than 5K... Basically all his friends to know him as a thief, info can be sent to all his future boss (as it's pretty clear he can't live of poker), etc...

I say we leave him like one week to pay and then we **** him up in every possible ways.

They will simply google his name before giving him a job and this thread will show up as #1 result.

I realize virtually everything this dude says is bull**** but is it possible he's in Thailand right now?

This chat is from 3/15/12.

maxostoch: whats up

quux: chillin' like a villain. yourself?

maxostoch: looking to go to thai

quux: Cool. I don't mean to be rude but who are you? =)

maxostoch: maxostoch from 2p2

quux: What stakes you play.

maxostoch: HT
maxostoch: 30s Husngs

I mentioned I couldn't deposit, being in the US.

maxostoch: Uff yeah i know
maxostoch: Merge is working for uS players
maxostoch: i can get u money there
maxostoch: u can pay with bank transfer but depends

quux: Nah, can't make an account, I live in NY.
quux: But I appreciate.
quux: You playing live in Thailand, vacationing or what?

maxostoch: No i dont plive
maxostoch: im going to thailand
maxostoch: in july
maxostoch: getting some mates

Not sure if anyone is aware but that's already the case. =)

https://www.google.com/search?q=Maxi+Stochyk

The power of 2+2!

And no quux, he's definitely in Argentina. He had planned to move to a billion different places, but nothing ever materialized.

Haha, that's awesome. Scammer scum get what's coming to them.

maxi?

Oh, I wouldn't say that at all. The dude is basically hosed 4lyf. Welcome to the internet where nothing ever truly dies (/kisses wayback machine).

Would you, at 18, expose yourself as a thief, commit grand larceny and completely fsck your employment future for $6k?

That's like $100 USD/year considering how long he'll live. Maybe.

If you call that winning, wtf do you consider losing? lol.

Apparently from what i have talked to some Argentinian regs he cashed out through a live cashier (you trnsfer the money to an account and he gives you the money in the moment) and he was trying to cash out to make Stars loose track of the money. To make it even worse he also scammed a guy for $50 dollars to buy a holdem manager license .

Part 2 of the article coming this afternoon.

Ridiculous.

gl OP and great job Palinca and Paddy. Keep it going.

it's actually pretty std to google, unless you apply for a job where people actually don't own a pc, or are like a minium wage job at some small shop or something like that. but if you want to have a nice job or a job at a bigger company, good luck.

hiring a yugoslavian hitman to torture him with some thumbscrews and whiplashes seems ridiculously tempting now

His 2+2 posts were always sketchy he was trying to boost his post count for sure posting rubbish creating pointless threads i don't post much but he did talk a lot of rubbish in the travel forums for sure hope the OP gets his money back.

You can lol all you like, virtually all bosses do check google and really, if the sort of job he gets is a place that doesn't, imagine what kind of job that'll be.

And maybe you and I don't hang out with the same types of people; pretty sure I couldn't [successfully] laugh off theft of $6k to mates and girlfriends. But again, as before, if your mates and your woman can lol with you over grand larceny, what kinds of mates and women do you expect to have, anyway?

So Maxi has just resigned himself to a life of shyt jobs attended to by shyt managers doing shyt work, drinking with shyt mates and shagging some shytty girlfriend, all for $100/yr.

gg.

Keep lol'ing. Sounds like you're one of his future mates.

Thats right,unfortunaly i was the one that gave him that contact. I do know that they delivered the money to his father office or house.I just contacted him and passed the link,and hopefully he contacts his father linking this thread and he can do something,in case the father doesnt knows about his disgracefull son.

lol ur so wrong,the kid is ****ed.This thread might be forgot in the future,but it will allways appear as a scammer,plus the lastname of his family also is ****ed in reputation. Wich work company will want to hire a scammer? He returns the money,or life is going to be quiet hard for him.
Oh i know,you and your friend might think its actually cool to steal money online and that companys will be even more interested in him because of the scam...haha pathetic,gl cause u and maxi need it.

To much shyt in this thread, if people are interested in getting a solution and the real storry contact maxstoch28@gmail.com

This thread is not producive at all.