Paul Zimbler who last year lost a court case for theft and later declared himself bankrupt, has last night set up a Facebook Charity Account which I recently was requested to accept. Sceptically I did and the first private message I received was this:
Hi ****
Hope your well Firstly, thanks for accepting my facebook request to my charity page. I am planning on doing more poker challenges to raise money for charity and right now with your help I am raising money to put these ideas in place.
Please can you send me what you can to:
P Zimbler
Natwest Bank
Account Number: 7*******
Sort Code: 4* ** **
I thank you for all your help in this project and will keep you informed of all further events
I advise to any of his approximately 3,000 facebook friends, do not accept this request at any costs. He famously ran a heads up poker world record for 'charity' in 2009 raising £35,000 but only handed a cheque over for £13,000.
I also urge anyone who Paul tries to approach for money to get him reported to the relevant authorities and stay away from him at all costs.
The new facebook account is here:
http://www.facebook.com/paul.zimblercharity.7