Background
Hey guys - before I get into all of this, I really did not want to make this post. At times, it had seemed that Keji (the owner of prodigyhook) really did mean that he would release phook in the allotted time that he specified. This however, changed dramatically as he went on with the development of the cheat. I truly do not believe that phook started off as a scam project, but instead I believe that as Keji started to invest more and more time into it and create more and more of the cheat, he realized that it was no easy task. This in turn is what I believe put him over the edge and just completely scammed phook's userbase. Currently, as of December 31st, 2020, Nugzy has taken over the project because Keji had abandoned it (or "given it over" to Nugzy); read more about this in Abandonment.
Although I am talking about a very trivial amount, ($15 for lifetime + beta, $7 for lifetime and you were just considered a normal user) I do still believe that Keji should have definitely put some thought into it before actually starting this gigantic project. Like I said, I truly believe that Keji wanted to create the cheat and release it for a small amount, but had absolutely no idea on what he was getting into.
The cheat's development originally started in late March - early April of 2020, where the prodigyhook discord was officially released https://imgur.com/a/mQL58DO
The reason this new cheat gained so much traction in such a little amount of time was due to the fact that Keji is the owner of ProdigyHVH (a NA hvh server and discord) where he advertised his new project. Also, this new cheat was "version 2" of prodigyhook, which had a shitty pasted version 1 that was cracked before this current project.
The thing that really pisses me off is when Keji was asked what an eta would be for release of the beta and he would say "few days for beta, few weeks for user" - keep in mind he said this about Prodigyhook v2 in late June of 2020. https://imgur.com/a/uKGc3v9
Events leading up to the scam
Now, the whole situation overall is very sketchy. It's obvious that Keji is a very immature youth who thought it would be fun to make his own self coded cheat from scratch and release it to beta in a few weeks. As of now, December 31st, 2020, Keji has since either deleted or made the purchasing channel for the cheat private in the public discord. Luckily, he had sent me a screenshot in June showing part of the original message in the purchase channel showing where you could purchase beta/user. https://imgur.com/a/uKGc3v9
Unfortunately, I do not have any screenshots of him actually saying what the price is, but I do have proof of me paying for the cheat and me saying that in this case, the csgo skin's price had dropped down. https://imgur.com/WXITA4u https://imgur.com/HSP3WKt Proof of me sending the skin to him on the same date as the messages went down: https://imgur.com/Nd9Kue9
Keji had released a "teaser" in late June of 2020 showcasing the menu and visuals (obviously pasted, looks very generic as well). That video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P76RxRxCe4g&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=Kejimekuji. Screenshot of him sending out the video and releasing it to the community: https://imgur.com/qebCTFx
Signs of Keji losing interest, and slowly abandoning the cheat
Before I continue with this section, according to Keji, 280 users purchased the cheat - assuming all of the users who purchased the cheat used paypal, bitcoin, and skins, we can also assume that half of them purchased beta (this being $15) and half purchased standard (this being $7); this gives us $2100 for beta, and $980 for users - this adding up to a grand total of $3,080 all for a cheat not even close to being finished.
The biggest signs of Keji losing interest in development of the cheat were lack of updates and information. We would be very lucky if he would give us an "eta" on when the cheat would be released (always a few weeks or a few days, this continued on for months).
Here is a video showing the lack of updates Keji showed to the community publicly, and how he would constantly say that it would be released soon, but would advertise other projects and ideas instead of the real task at hand - developing the cheat. https://streamable.com/vh48yc
Abandonment
About 6 months after the project started, Keji threw in the towel. He completely gave up and handed over the project to Nugzy, an admin and close friend of Keji. Nugzy would be tasked with finishing the project and releasing it as soon as possible (he also had stated that he WAS NOT using Keji's base of phook, but was using his own that he had been in the process of making), but all users soon realized that it would be no short task. https://imgur.com/ibWbWNE
The good news
Ever since Nugzy has taken over Phook, things have definitely taken a turn for the better. As of today, December 31st, 2020, Nugzy has taken over the project for 77 days, and has made A LOT more progress than Keji has made in ~6 months.
As of how, it seems that Nugzy is definitely a lot more active and involved with the community, and constantly is giving updates to the progress and not making absurd promises that he cannot keep.
Conclusion
I definitely can understand that this may offend some people, but I really think that this was a necessary post to make to expose Keji's lies and his total exit scam of a project. As of now, it seems as thought Keji has taken all of the money from the project and run, and had to find some way to make it seem like it wasn't a scam, so he gave all ownership and code to Nugzy to finish the shit fest Keji started.
I really do think that this project was started as a way to take advantage of newer players, as it seems like it to me. Keji knew how to manipulate "newfags" in the community, and make it seem like he was making this amazing, cheap as fuck cheat to use forever. I know me personally came across it only because I had played in the ProdigyHVH server, and I was very new to cheating at the time and didn't have the knowledge or experience to see that it was very sketchy and was a scam.
All in all, I really hope everyone reading this learns something - don't trust a new cheat that is promising a good, new, fun, cheat to use and you only have to pay $15 for beta! It's obvious now to me that Keji did indeed intend to take advantage of new players, or just anyone who was gullible enough (or curious enough) to cough up $7 - 15 and I truly hope that people see this as an oppurtunity to do your research and not to give your money to someone named Kejimekuji.
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