Yes, it is.

Regardless of what dictionary definition you will try to cite in response, the term "scam" in 2018 is commonly accepted to be a scheme to defraud people of money or property.

If you tell someone, "I got scammed", and then continue, "But it didn't involve money or losing anything I own", they will look at you like you're from another planet.

Newsflash:

This just in to NVG, "Pot calls kettle "black". Karma of poker world back in balance ?"

I think he understands but he is trying to save face. He's just doing a lousy job at it. I still think his name should be in the title of this thread.

What was the reason this “ donator” was being harassed in real life to fake a death ?

Did he owe money ? Was he a racist ? Did he sleep with a heshe

It must of being pretty important to try to wipe his life off the books and live an unknown underground life no one can find out about

And yes not stopping this while still working with this person is a scam

You mean like they look at you in this thread right now?

Racism is openly allowed, if not encouraged on his site.

And there are disgusting sexist thread titles, that deserve a permaban in any forum anywhere.

There has to be much more behind your hatred for Todd besides the fake death and $40.

Did he ignore your wife or something?

He claimed someone was harassing his family and calling his kids daycare. It hasn't been proven though.

But why ?

They just don’t like his face ?

And his latest thread people are referring to this 1 guy as jewboy and nothing was done or deleted so it's not surprising what you are posting.

Pretty sure OP is Marty aka Jewdonk and todd refers to himself as a cheap jew pretty much weekly fwiw

Is the guy who faked his death someone who is known in the poker world?

For some reason, nobody seems to want to give a straight answer as to who this guy is.

What happened here was clearly a hoax. No one got scammed. Good that the new title reflects that.

If he did nothing wrong and ppl were harassing his family and kids, he probably should of called the police, got some restraining orders, instead of making an elaborate illegal plan to fake his death

So imo he must of done something pretty bad, doesn’t sound like it’s possible he’s some innocent person who’s being harassed Bc when people look at him they just want to punch his ugly face

Pretty sure no one is going to day care threatening someone’s kids for no reason

I don't know why or even who it was. Most of the real issues seem to be going on off the forum.

He is an incredibly nice and generous guy though with a lot of money. He was regularly donating to the freerolls and he gave out a lot of wsop stakes to guys who are clearly destined to be broke and live paycheck to paycheck for the rest of their life.

Even in the death thread someone said they would forgive him for some money - and I'm pretty sure he sent them paypal that day, then all of the sudden all these posters who haven't been around for a while come out of the wood work to kiss his ass.

I'm only speculating, but I would imagine the reason he started getting harassed is a direct result of him being too generous with a greedy scum bag.

OP is certainly not Marty. Marty is an excellent writer. If Marty were to chime in, and he definitely will although not likely on this site, he would add at least a half dozen more examples of Druff being a hypocritical blowhard.

Ok, one example...

This forum is well aware of how UB/AP went down and who is responsible for that happening. Druff puts himself in as the main hero character when recounting how it happened as if his involvement changed anything. That should speak volumes here.

Marty completely eviscerates Todd when they battle but those exchanges don't last long as Todd removes the posts.

Damn sounds like a sad story

Thanks

If you see Marty please tell him I am sorry for insulting his writing skills.

Because Todd never properly moderated his forums, insults and personal attacks became the norm. His own hoax calls on the radio show promoted a vigilante culture amongst his readers and listeners.

I'm surprised it took this long for something like this to happen.

It's a real shame because the radio show was, on the whole, entertaining.

how dare you call ECB a troll, the nerve of some people, to come on here and blatantly reply to ECB......

Todd has always been shady. The way he nickel dimes everyone, and is willing to actually get people fired over 50 cents (low wager fast food workers, for example) makes him a bad person.

He says that he never scams anyone, yet on his radio show he scams businesses by calling them up and wasting their time in a fake voice, as he creates false issues, robbing companies of their manpower, all for the benefit of his show.

Now he says that having a forum poster pay 8K in entrees for Todd to this year WSOP, during which time the poster was perpetrating a cancer death hoax, didn't impact his judgment. He claims he would have sold out the stake anyways, yet also states that it did save him a bunch of time and aggravation, by only having to deal with one person. So, he values his own time, yet nobody else's, then discounts that time and says that it has no value, and therefore not a scam.

The guy claims to live in Los Angeles, yet at the WSOP he is listed as being from Nevada. Nevada doesn't have state income tax. Maybe he lists Nevada, and maybe he lists California on his tax returns. Who knows? But the guy is willing to spend 20 hours on issues involving essentially 50 cents. All for the principle of the thing.

He delivered his own knockout punch here, though, with his rationalizations. He even went so far as to get cute with his words, stating that he did not know that the cancer and death hoax threads were going up, implying that had he had known, he would have stopped it. Such lies. He calls others out for far far less. There were posters on his site who spend over 10 hours (conservative) looking up cancer info and trying to help..lol...Todd does not care...not a scam in his opinion. The guy who claimed cancer even called up a poster on the site who had cancer before, faked like he was his own brother, then put the guy through the ringer telling him that the cancer hoaxer was now dead. Start to finish, the hoax lasted many months. costing at least hundreds of hours of people's time. No big deal. Not a scam.

Todd claims that people not put his name in threads, as to avoid coming up in Google searches, yet that is his exact M.O. when he has an issue with anyone.

He constantly lets people know that he runs his site at a loss, as if he is doing the posters on the forum a favor, yet the reason he does it is strictly for ego gratification. Those same posters are the one's he despises, not the ones he is running a "charity" forum for. He does it all for one reason, his misplaced ego.

And of course, the one and only poster on the whole site, who has ever given Todd a significant amount of money, by buying at least 8K worth of buyins to this years WSOP, and also putting up thousands of free roll money through the years, is also the one guy who Todd scams the forum with, by going along with the cancer hoax and fake death. I mean, the guy admits he knew the cancer was a hoax, yet he let it go on for months, robbing posters of their time, and playing with their emotions. Yet somehow it was not a scam. Next year, if the scam hadn't been uncovered, Todd likely gets staked again. But it didn't alter his judgment. Whatever.

Money and ego are his religion He admits to being a "cheap Jew" constantly, which is similar to black people calling themselves the n word....just feeding into stereotypes.

The cancer hoaxer stated before his "death" that he would give a 10K freeroll to the site. The guy is supposedly a millionaire. Of course, now that the hoax has been uncovered, what does the hoaxer do? Tells the forum that he donated 5K to some Boys and Girls club in Hollywood, California. No problem at all with wasting hundreds, if not thousands of collective hours of people's time with the cancer hoax. They get nothing. When the gig is finally up, Todd claims extreme bad health as the main reason for people to not pile on. Oh, and that it was not malicious....yeah right. People's time and emotions have no value to Todd...therefore...not a scam...can't you see?

Todd's defense here, makes him ineligible, to further hunt down frauds or comment on anyone concerning scams, ethics, or anything. Imagine if Mason and Sklansky got together with 2+2's biggest advertiser and allowed a multi month death hoax to go on. You cannot even imagine it. But what if when they were caught, they claimed that the advertising dollars played no role in the matter, as they would have been able to sell the advertising anyways.

Todd blew it. The emperor has no clothes. Too late to backtrack now. Too many lies, too many white lies and half truths. Not a good guy, especially when it comes to honest hard working people in low wages jobs. He shows no mercy to anyone in those situations, where he feels slighted in the least. Hour upon hour about crying over why subway won't let him get tomatoes on the side. Calling managers when lowly workers make honest mistakes. It is over. Pull the plug on that scam site.

Hognoot nailed it. Druff's disrespect of other people time while constantly escalating service issues to management due to the perceived wasting of his time is common. He takes it to the next level and coaches others on how to lie to service people to get advantages that otherwise they are not eligible for. He is so high maintenance it's a marvel some of these companies don't just refuse to serve him.

That is not a sign of someone with ethics. That is the sign of the kind of guy that improves the lie of his golf ball if he is certain nobody is looking, even with money on the line.

He also gets terribly vindictive and plans ahead to the point of keeping folders of personal information on people that post on his forum as insurance so he can blackmail them into silence if they ever cross him.

I think he mentions on his site that he is going through a tough time at home that has lead to anxiety issues and bad decisions. If true, get well soon.

Frankly, This whole situation seems pretty pathetic.

As an aside, I write and read the writings of others professionally and it seems pretty obvious to me that dealace1 and hognoot are the same person. Creating another account to agree with yourself is a new level of pathetic.