The Anonymous Victim
On June 1, 2023, I was contacted by an anonymous person from the UK on Instagram. He claimed that he had information and evidence regarding Wesley’s involvement in a cryptocurrency scam from years prior. After some back and forth over the next few days, I agreed to take a phone call with him to hear what he had to say.
On that call, this individual claimed that he and his friend (who, incidentally, was also named ‘Ben’) had been scammed for $250,000 by Wesley. This amount was their entire life savings. He was extremely emotional as he gave his account of this.
More shockingly, he then claimed that after he reported this scam to his bank, Wesley sent thugs to burglarize his home. Nothing was taken besides a few storage devices. Initially, I found this hard to believe, but he played me a voice recording that was clearly Wesley’s voice. He claimed that this was Wesley taunting him after he had perpetrated the burglary. He said that Wesley had ties to organized crime, and had done this to ‘send a message’.
The screenshot on the left purportedly shows a WhatsApp conversation between Wesley and the anonymous ‘victim’ after the burglary had happened.
He was able to give me Wesley’s phone number, real legal name, and a voice recording showing Wesley taunting him. It was indeed Wesley’s voice in the recording. This ‘evidence’ was shared with the public on September 4, 2023.
Most significantly, this screenshot suggests that Wesley effectively admitted to being behind the burglary.
Without any further information, I came to the conclusion that Wesley was a dangerous person with ties to organized crime, and that he needed to be brought to justice.
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I now believe that these screenshots were fabricated and/or heavily edited.
As for the voice recording, I believe that this was a voice clip that was taken from one of Wesley’s appearances on Hustler Casino Live, and then completely twisted out of context.
Based on both Wesley’s and my interactions with Russell Thamer, he has shown on a number of occasions that he is skilled at fabricating such ‘evidence’. Further proof of this is posted elsewhere on this website.
As the caller described this incident, his tone became distressed and emotional. He asked for my help to expose Wesley and hold him accountable for his ‘crimes’. When I asked what I could do, he said that he was preparing to create a website containing details and evidence of Wesley’s misdeeds, but that he would require ‘funding’. I did not agree to anything at this point.
However, at this time, I had already harbored a deep dislike for Wesley for various reasons. When I heard that Wesley had not only defrauded an innocent investor of his entire life savings, but also hired thugs to invade his home, I was absolutely infuriated.
Perhaps against my better judgment, I have always been enraged by what I perceive to be injustice, and have always been quick to involve myself in other people’s fights in order to lend assistance to those who I believe are being bullied. I rashly rushed to judgment based on my existing biases against Wesley, and I made the determination that he was a dangerous person who needed to be exposed and held accountable.
In the weeks that followed, I spoke with a number of people in the poker community, a few of whom gave me vague details of Wesley’s involvement in failed cryptocurrency projects. These were all verbal accounts, without proof.
I took this to mean that the story was corroborated. I tried to get more people to come together to take action against the fraud in our midst. However, this was during the height of the WSOP, and so many people were too preoccupied. I pressed hard and argued that it was a matter of principle, and that we collectively had a responsibility to dig deeper. People began to get annoyed with me. I decided not to invest more effort into this. I had come to the conclusion that my ‘campaign’ against Wesley was futile, and so I decided to leave it alone.
I focused solely on my work projects for the next month or so. However, on July 29, the anonymous stranger reached back out to me and said that he had new incriminating information about Wesley. He claimed that he and his friend ‘Ben’ incurred $15,000 in expenses for his investigation, and said that he was preparing an 8-page online dossier or ‘pitch book’ on all of Wesley’s wrongdoings. At this point, I clarified to him that I had never been scammed by Wesley before, and that our conflict had only consisted of ‘talking shit about each other’. To that, he replied that they had ‘proof of (Wesley) being a scammer (and) associated with criminals.”
I decided to once again give some consideration to what he had to say.
These text exchanges show the anonymous victim contacting me again on July 29, almost two months after we spoke on the phone. By this time, I had decided to take a break from poker entirely.
He claimed that he and his friend ‘Ben’ had spent £15,000 of their own money their own private investigation into Wesley - and they now had proof that he was associated with criminals. In this exchange, I stated clearly that Wesley had never scammed me before.