Carbon Poker Merge Network House Shills Internet

Here is how the Carbon Poker/Merge Network scam works and how it succeeded in wasting a lot of my time and cost me 400 dollars in rakes,deposits, and fees. 

1. Hire a bunch of people in a poor country to take your deposits and play in the games.

2. Train them so that they know how to collude in games in the proper way depending on the result that is desired.

3. Pay those people to post in forums and create blogs to add legitimacy and plausible denibility in order to add doubt and avoid detection.

4. Use your affiliates as prop players and allow them to maintain winning longterm records in the games. These are your "big winners".

5. Have another group of people focused on trying to find ways to steal from any players that have managed to win in the cash games in heads up situations against other American players. These players superuse and always maintain low sample sizes as to keep their results statistically insignificant.

6. For your Americans verses Americans or non-house verses non-house matches rig the results of the match to make the rake collected as extreme as possible but still within the bounds of being unprovable due to sample size.

7. Use the VIP store as a tool to lure people but make the acquisition of the items in that store impossible due to "software
errors"

8. Have a cashout policy that is very unreasonable in any context but hide behind the excuse that it is because of the difficulty transferring money.

9. Verify documents and have strict security measures in situations that all relate to denying people their money and reinforce the perception of the site as a place that cares about protecting the integrity of transactions on it.

10. Set-up affiliated credit card processors to both handle poker deposits and to engage in identity theft and credit card fraud. Control the distribution of short term results in your poker games so that it allows you to make it appear that players are on an upswing in your games when in reality you're really dumping stolen money to make it impractically traceable and unlink-able to your network affiliates.

11. Send uncashable checks out to any players that get through the egregious cash-out policy to string them along. This adds informational legitimacy in the poker community and works as a from of advertising to bait more suckers to deposit.

12. Set up a bunch of skins that you control tightly but act as if you have loose cannons among them so that you can cut them loose when they blatantly steal from their customers in more extreme ways. Brand arbitrage I guess you could call it.