I want to present you a lovely fella from germany, Mr. Max Ashkar:

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He is allegedly responsible for one of the biggest player to player scams in the history of online poker.

The first reports came in october 2011 and threads popped up on pokerstrategy.com and 2+2.

As it is rumored he scammed several players with the help of a trojan which he installed manually on the victims computers for over 7 figures.

His line was to befriend many succesful poker players mainly at the european tournament circuit. His FB friendlist included almost everybody. During the events he got access to the victims computers and allegedly installed a virus with a usb stick. He also visited some poker houses to pull his scam there. He was very well known in the poker circles and back in the days he was beating the games in a fair manner until the games caught up on him and he went broke. Thats when he started his shady comeback.

In the threads many famous players piped up such as Timex McDonald and Andrew Lichtenberger who got to know him.

One of the bigger casualties was Niki Jedlicka (KaiBuxxe/RealAndyBeal) who lost 350K to the scammer. The most victims are from England (many German pokerpros live there), Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

One player who normally played the 2K hunsngs got beaten by the scammer and then hunted down by him till his BR was to small to play the 100$ husngs. The scammer used differnt accounts to do that.

At the Poker-EM (EuroCup) in Baden some of the victims confronted Max with the allegations and interrogated him until he confessed and they recorded it on a mobile. After it they brought him to the police but Max revoked his testimony at the police and claimed (as it is reported rightfully) that he was forced to the confession.

The investigation is ongoing. Some say that the victims have no real hopes in the official investigations and are searching for evidences on their own and want to bring it to court in England.

The mainstream media reported about the scam in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

At the moment Max is on the run and allegedly he hides in Qatar.