This is disgusting that omaholic was able to scam someone here after rolling the sports threads. It seems like he is using his past reputations and winnings to scam as much as he can get away with. I tried to type on pocket fives that he was a scammer but it seems like it still does not come up in google search. I think creating a thread to hunting him down is necessary and to let others be aware.
I was not scammed and don't have the time to do it, just my 2c

This will be moved to the p2p chat thread.

CF - thanks for responding

The Omaholic refused to send first to very trustworthy posters and seemed to be looking for a mark to send first.
edit - OOPs - just read ClemsonFTW's post

The posters reported this to MH and me (well done guys ), I searched and found his scams in both sports betting forums.

For P5s they never do undertitles in the profile page.
However if you click on the persons post total # and go to a post you will then see an undertitle if there is one.

profile - http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/theomaholic/
clicking 1,957 and any bold thread title shows a post headed by:


TheOmaholic
Do NOT Trust - Scammer

Can't help but notice a lot of regs posting huge amounts of Lock for sale in the transfer thread today...anyone want to share what's up?

Probably should not be facilitating trades between banned and legitimate members. I don't understand why you would forward any info from a banned member but it might get you into trouble if it continues.

He wasn't facilitating a trade.
He was helping establish a contact connection.
Precautionary temp-bans have become standard safety procedure (for obvious reasons, I hope) and often contact must then be established to complete trades.

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Doesn't seem more than usual. Doubt much has changed, they take forever to pay everybody.

Looked to me like he was temp-banned to give them time to sort out whether it was an actual scam or a simple misstep over what ended being an amount of $40 or so. As it turns out, looks like the guy simply fell asleep in the middle of the night after a very long day of trying to cash out of Lock once and for all.

I sincerely hope should I ever run into the unfortunate circumstance of being scammed people will rush to help me recover my money also and truly don't see the wrong in such an attempt, if in fact there is any. That's why they have guys like RainbowWarrior and the other moderators who probably know very well how to to handle such situations through experience rather than opinion. Although I for one welcome almost all opinions also, I'd rather leave it to them to decide what's inappropriate or "trouble."

The sizes of the amounts being offered all at once seemed a bit higher than normal to me, so I was curious...especially recognizing some of the "handles" of who was offering was all.

My bad, was not caught up on the whole thing. Seemed wrong atm to me. Banned posters have no ability to contact 2p2 admins?

As far as i know, nothing "is up". However, for me at least (and so possibly for others aswell), this is the point where i'm starting to get genuinely scared for my money. My Skrill cashout was requested december 3rd, and still hasn't arrived (52 days). It says Authorized, but didn't hit my account yet. While some months ago, Skrill cashouts took around a month, and this was really long obviously, but we were constantly promised this would IMPROVE with some Cashier improvements they did some weeks ago. Now the exact opposit is happening: it's getting far worse, to me a big warning sign, and i guess for others aswell. One would start thinking the card house is about to collapse indeed. That being said, i do still see reports of others being paid.

Who knows, I'm thinking of seeing what the hub-bub about Bovada is next month. Noticed you didn't have them listed. Is it because of no P2P transfers there? Or you you don't patronize them

Sick. Tried to get me too. Pmd mods that I thought he was scammer around 430pm just now living back in and not surprised to see all this. Hopefully it stopped someone else from getting scammed.

lmfao, you'll get a super chuckle on this...the guy who claimed he might have been scammed is actually a scammer in his own rights! Told ya the mods here were sharp!

Actually just tried opening a new account.. only country in the dropdown box listed was Canada? Looks like i can't play from where i live?

i read something about that in the "where can us players play" (or something like that) thread. It might have to do w/Bovada being basicallly american & Bodog being the rest of the world. You should check that out though it should be within the last 4 pages or so.

I see no trades in your 8 posts, please post references as I might be interested. jamthe3 on lock

Not really, since it takes months to get anything off the site.. lol. If he's buying here as a US player, it's probably either because he generally loses and would rather get more $$ to play with for his $$ worth OR because he's a winning player on a downswing who lost his roll and again would rather get more $$ worth for his $$ when "rebuying" into Lock. He's almost definately not making any money whatsoever off the trades itself.

The only people who can make money off trading in here are EU people like me, but even that is coming to an end it looks like with Skrill taking 2 months now.

Just an update:

Benjamin Harris Plyler from Wilmington/Wrightsville, NC (NCSU Wolfpack on 2p2) scammed Dec1 and myself.

Just want to make sure I include his name for future references and to see if anyone has anymore information on him. If you do live around him/know him please let me know.

I contacted him and we worked out two deadlines, but he has failed to meet those. Now he has chosen to disappear for 5 days.

His Lock name is ISUCKPP. His Carbon name is 0nehighlife. He goes by Onehighlife on p5s.



The original scam took place on 01-10-2013. This is just to update some information and see if anyone knows/has more information. Thanks

He has committed assault and robbery in the past
might want to contact Hanover Police Dept in NC.

North Carolina Department Of Public Safety
Offender Public Information

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/...lts&listpage=1

Oh snap. .. hope he gets in big trouble if it's really the guy

Wow... and that link you put there.. that info is just freely to be found on the internet?

21st century pillory anyone? No really, mouth wide open still after minutes of seeing that page.

Nop.. no such thing here. Does that stay on there forever? Does it ever go away?


Wow....

learn something new every day i guess, infact not really sure why it surprises me if i think of it.. knowing the US -_-

does smoking a blunt go on there aswell? .... all your life?

.. parking tickets? XD

Yeah i mean, don't wanna turn this into an ethics debate, not going to go anywhere anyways.. It just seems so gross these people are already punished much more in the US than in Belgium for example for criminal offenses, and then ontop of that you've got this record about you online, following you everywhere? That's why i'm wondering if it ever goes away? There's no room for redemption in the US?

10 years later you changed and sorted your life completely, turned into another person, but that employer can still see your record and not hire you because of it?

Oh yeah, i mean, if he's scammed people here and you can get him punished, by all means, definately do all effort possible to do so. Since the information is out there aswell, i think it's only normal you use it.

Well, can't you check online..? LOL

I take the blame for starting about that criminal record thing, sorry!

ofc its him
far from a common name and the same state

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Edit/MH:

No additional info, except that he was trying to get me to do a trade for 1-2k around the same time, which I assume was a scam attempt. I offered to have a more reputable 2+2er hold the lock money in escrow while he deposited & he disappeared. Did you email lock and have his account frozen/ disabled?

Jordan Ebner will vouch for me Im sure

As well as 20 others

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Edit/MH: Ebener; Ebes12

See http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=3458

I personally have no idea who Jordan Ebner is, but if its important to you...by all means have them vouch for you as well as with the 20 others. Myself, I simply built up what little reputation I have through honest trading and feel no real need to post references in response to one forum member looking out for the well being of the rest of us (you incluced btw) & the Mod of Mods doing his job.

But on a lighter note, who is Jordan Ebner? Actually not being sarcastic here, just curious...googled and saw a couple weird things but nothing relating to poker that I could tell.

The spelling he used is incorrect. Should be Ebener, that will produce more relevant results through google. Iirc he was (is) a Lock pro.