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[obeygiant]

You should edit your first post, before more people fall for the scam. (although they have not scammed YET, it's very likely that they will once they have enough invested money)

Good idea. Just did it. Thanks.

[obeygiant]

Once you actually think about things, a scam is pretty easy to spot.

This is obviously a scam because it works too smoothly. A real funds-pooling poker operation would never pay out a % on a random deposit made on any random hour of the day. They would need a cutoff time to take the whole balance to casino tables. To account for all of this, it would be a massive amount of work.

Next, it is unlikely that there would be absolutely no mismatch between what is deposited and what the players manage to wager. There would be problems; they would have a % win on what they managed to wager and that would have to be diluted among the deposits they didn't manage to wager. They would end up talking about this.

Then there's the aggressive referral system. 10%? Right.

Then, they claim to make "through reviews of bad hands." This is possible, but would take ages and is really impractical. No "pros" would allow themselves to have their plays reviewed by "managers."

Then, there's the neato uniform distribution of losses, almost 4-1-4-1-4-1. No two consecutive loss days. Right.

Then, there is no blog. That's where all the minor problems that an actual operation (of anything) would have been reported.

Then, there are the typos.

Then there's the claim of "best poker players in the world" that I didn't spot, which is ludicrous.

And of course, if you already knew about HYIP, you would pattern-match the +/- percentage scheme to other scams. A legitimate business would never adopt a scheme that would pattern-match so directly to known scam schemes.

The human race is intriguing. :-)

[ni|]

You should edit your first post, before more people fall for the scam. (although they have not scammed YET, it's very likely that they will once they have enough invested money)

Good idea. Just did it. Thanks.

Glad you did, we wouldnt want to mislead people

[obeygiant]

You should edit your first post, before more people fall for the scam. (although they have not scammed YET, it's very likely that they will once they have enough invested money)

Good idea. Just did it. Thanks.

Glad you did, we wouldnt want to mislead people

Doh, forgot to take out the link (in case "THIS IS A SCAM" is not sufficient :-). Now it is done.

SHIT, just logged in and I have one referral. Luckily their system shows their e-mail address. I'm going to warn him/her by pointing to this thread.

[ni|]

You should edit your first post, before more people fall for the scam. (although they have not scammed YET, it's very likely that they will once they have enough invested money)

Good idea. Just did it. Thanks.

Glad you did, we wouldnt want to mislead people

Doh, forgot to take out the link (in case "THIS IS A SCAM" is not sufficient :-). Now it is done.

SHIT, just logged in and I have one referral. Luckily their system shows their e-mail address. I'm going to warn him/her by pointing to this thread.

Thats good of you, also did you get the cashout ?

[obeygiant]

You should edit your first post, before more people fall for the scam. (although they have not scammed YET, it's very likely that they will once they have enough invested money)

Good idea. Just did it. Thanks.

Glad you did, we wouldnt want to mislead people

Doh, forgot to take out the link (in case "THIS IS A SCAM" is not sufficient :-). Now it is done.

SHIT, just logged in and I have one referral. Luckily their system shows their e-mail address. I'm going to warn him/her by pointing to this thread.

Thats good of you, also did you get the cashout ?

Yes, they paid me back.

[b!z]

Once you actually think about things, a scam is pretty easy to spot.

This is obviously a scam because it works too smoothly. A real funds-pooling poker operation would never pay out a % on a random deposit made on any random hour of the day. They would need a cutoff time to take the whole balance to casino tables. To account for all of this, it would be a massive amount of work.

Next, it is unlikely that there would be absolutely no mismatch between what is deposited and what the players manage to wager. There would be problems; they would have a % win on what they managed to wager and that would have to be diluted among the deposits they didn't manage to wager. They would end up talking about this.

Then there's the aggressive referral system. 10%? Right.

Then, they claim to make "through reviews of bad hands." This is possible, but would take ages and is really impractical. No "pros" would allow themselves to have their plays reviewed by "managers."

Then, there's the neato uniform distribution of losses, almost 4-1-4-1-4-1. No two consecutive loss days. Right.

Then, there is no blog. That's where all the minor problems that an actual operation (of anything) would have been reported.

Then, there are the typos.

Then there's the claim of "best poker players in the world" that I didn't spot, which is ludicrous.

And of course, if you already knew about HYIP, you would pattern-match the +/- percentage scheme to other scams. A legitimate business would never adopt a scheme that would pattern-match so directly to known scam schemes.

The human race is intriguing. :-)

Here's their ad banner:


It says "Invest in the world's best poker team". It is obvious that they are lying.

[BM1980]

NOT PAYING

THIS IS COPY FROM POKER BY PROXY HISTORY AND TICKET FROM SUPORT
1.2416 btc i have on this site it is 1200$
what is with withdraw request ?
From administrator
Sent on November 26th 2013
What about it?

Jack

From administrator
Sent on November 26th 2013
Within 48 hours. We are just waiting on an incoming funding order.

Jack

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api on 26/11/2013 16:39:50
when will you send btc from withdraw ?

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25/11/2013 18:37 Bitcoin withdrawal request for 0.7416 bitcoins
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24/11/2013 21:47 Account updated
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[obeygiant]

"LOL"?

    https://www.pokerbyproxy.com/results/2013/11/29.html

Meanwhile I had found another scam marker: the flashing graphic in the front page shows a blackjack table (or some similar game) with a dealer, completely unrelated to poker. And the site opens with "Do you love Poker"? Clearly the maker of this website does not love poker...

Obey

[wangtangkiki]

LMFAO. I'm a pro poker player, and your bankroll will have way higher swings (up and down) than 3%~   LOL'd so hard at -99% lost. Of course PayPal scammed them.

Honestly, I love the site layout, but obviously I hate the whole fucking SCAM part.

[ThomasDB]

Love how in the "how it works" text it starts with: "Poker by Proxy works by taking your money"

And just to point out the obvious, if these players really were "the best in the world" why would they sell a large percentage of their action, doesn't exactly make much sense.