Canadian player Shakeeb Kazemipur accused of scamming several players

[hotshott74]

Haven't seen this posted over here yet, article about this scammer... Also, I believe there is a long thread over on 4 about it. This guy is a serial scammer.

https://www.codigopoker.com/general-...everal-players

To fully understand the situation we have to go back one year when a reddit post was written. kazemipur bardoUser Harleyy30040 wrote details about Shakeeb’s behavior. Apparently he sold the Canadian player $6,000 dollars through PokerStars. According to Harleyy30040, Kazemipur would ask for the transfer but would not send the money claiming problems with his bank accounts.

The situation between Kazemipur and Harleyy30040 solved when a friend of the affected part met with Shak who paid his debt. However a few days ago a Facebook post was written about the behavior of the Canadian player who apparently keeps on asking for money without paying.

Chris Symesco , who won recently won a side event at the EPT 12 Dublin, wrote a post in 780 Poker worthy of the worts horror story you can imagine.

Apparently Shakeeb keeps on buying money from different players in PokerStars but he would never pay. Also Shak would sell action from his tournament and from other players packages. Players would send him the money but he would keep it freely because most of the times the owner of the package would not cash.

He would also buy action from different players but wouldn’t send the money but would ask for the money in case the seller cashed.

According to Chris Symesco, everything escalated a few weeks ago when Shak asked him for money. He wanted to play a juicy cash game but would sit out for many hours. After a few hours, the room manager told Shak that he was out of the game because he wasn’t playing at all. At this point Chris would ask for his money but Shak told him that he wouldn’t return it.

Symesco then wrote the post where over fifty players have shared their stories. Actually they started a count of the debt which at the time is around $300,000 dollars.

4 thread:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...anada-1590015/

[sambrack]

There is a current article by Chris Smyesko in a Canadian publication, "Casino World Mazazine."

[hotshott74]

There is a current article by Chris Smyesko in a Canadian publication, "Casino World Mazazine."

Found the link to the article you're referring too online: http://casinoworldmagazine.com/shakd-continued/

Here is the summary from the bottom of the article...

Scams and Exploits

CURRENCY EXCHANGE

Shak would offer to exchange currency for you at market
rate, for seemingly any realistic sum. It would take weeks
to get your money if you ever got it.

FLOATING ACTION

Shak would buy your action, but not pay you for it unless
it got to a point where he would lose that action unless
payment was received. It was often that players would
get paid if they made it to a point where they were likely
to cash.

GHOSTING ACTION

It’s believed that Shak was overselling for some events,
and then punting off his stack. I also know he was offering
different packages to different people, and wouldn’t play
all the events.

SELLING SIDE ACTION

Shak would buy a package from someone, and then sell
%’s of his action in that player to others. I’m not sure if he
actually owned the action he was selling or not.

SMALL LOANS

Shak would borrow money from players to play an event
or cash game, and then disappear. The debts would never
get repaid.

FAKE BANK DEPOSITS

When you required money to be sent prior to you sending,
you would get a picture of a fake/doctored bank draft and
money would show up in your account. It would be
removed days later when the transaction bounced. This
was always somehow the banks mistake.