Okay so I guess Im finally forced to make this post. Unwillingly - But I feel like its the right thing to do to protect others in the community. If you are too lazy to read the whole story, just make sure you never lend money or let these guys play at your games:
Christophe Grenouilloux
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...7122&ref=br_rs
Antho CM
https://www.facebook.com/GUS.IVEY
All Ive asked these guys to do is to send me a plan when they will payback even if it was 100usd per month. But now that both of them have ignored my messages for almost a year, there is no more excuses left.
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The Story - trying to keep it short
Last year I started staking Chris whom I had known for a few years, but only met him once irl when we played some APT events in Jeju, Korea back in 2013.
We used to chat online a bit every now and then and he told me how he was busto and needed a stake. I gave him 2k usd to play mtts for a year and we were suppose to split profits 50:50 and I was also going to get my 2k back in the end of the year as well. (I have the deal in full details saved on my comp.) I also offered to help him to improve with his game but that wasnt part of the deal. I also felt confident that he is going to beat at least 10-20d games.
I trusted him since we had mutual friends and known each other for so long. Nobody had told anything bad about him either. (Which is part of the reason I now wanna warn others.) Later last Summer he introduced me to this guy Antho CM - whom I never met irl and was another busto French grinder living in Thailand(alarm bells???
) that he vouched for to be good in PLO and needing a stake to get back on his feet. I told Antho to send me his HM2 stats which seemed alright so we agreed that he will start from small stakes with 1.5k bankroll. Playing PLO 50 and if he was to go on a downswing drop to PLO 25 at 1k.
He ended up losing that 500 but he told me he didnt wanna drop stakes. I told him he has to. A while later he told me had busted it all.(I have no idea playing what.) But he told me he will payback the 1.5k usd in full. I told him just 1k is enough since losing that first 500 was according to our deal suppose to be my loss. He told me he couldnt payback yet coz he was busto so I told him not to worry til end of the year. Well in December he told he was still busto so I told him he can pay me 100 per month for the next 10 months. We agreed on that. Until this date I didnt receive a single penny. That was also the last message from him.
Chris started the stake by doing well and ran it up to at least 5k. Then he went on a downer and the next thing I know he doesnt reply to messages. This was around same time as Antho was losing. Im not sure where the balance was exactly at this time but if he followed our BRM agreements it shoulda been impossible for a winning player to ever go busto. A bit before him disappearing he told me he moved back to France, but I currently have no idea about his whereabouts.
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I know the sums arent that big, but who knows how many other people these guys owe. Also I have no idea whats the relationship between these 2 guys is like, scamming buddies? I also have no idea where they are located at the moment. What I do know however is that staking these guys was poor judgement from my end. I been staking and buying pieces from around a dozen people and now I been scammed a total of 3 times... My scam-o-detectors must be really off. At least this time I have contracts and chat logs saved on my computer, maybe in theory I could use those in the future to sue these guys? Not sure in which country though. Any advice on the situation and info on these guys will be appreaciated.
The main goal of this post is to prevent others from getting scammed in the future!