AIM hacked.

[Python49]

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Stevedapimp (Stevie Coleman) hacked the account of a well known FTP pro and chatted with me on the table from the pro's account, with the pro's avatar, in red type. I sent him an email, to the pro's real email address @fulltiltpoker.com and he responded and gave me his screen name. We then talked over AIM with the pro's real screen name. Over a couple days, he said he was coming to the borgata and wanted to swap real cash for online cash--I told him no problem. He had believable-enough stories for all my questions and hey--we chatted on the table in red type! All told, he got about 45k of my money before I was convinced enough something was up to call the guy. After speaking with him briefly, I immediately contacted tilt, stars and ub, the 3 sites involved.

Within 20 minutes, I had exchanged 2 emails with stars and was on the phone with them telling them the whole sordid tale. I'm fairly sure they were able to recover at least some of my money but am still waiting to hear. We exchanged frequent emails and talked on the phone several times. Stars really overperformed on this one--they contacted the other two poker sites and even contacted sports betting sites that had nothing to do with the transaction and got dapimp's accounts frozen.

Tilt responded fairly promptly and did a nice job keeping in touch with me, particularly after I sent Howard Lederer a note.

As expected, ub was beyond abysmal. It took 36 hours for me to get the, "we have forwarded your email to the appropriate department" email from them, and I just got a second email from them today, telling me that they were unable to recover any funds. This is upsetting, because I actually had a lot of information on the guy and his accounts. When I complained, UB told me that even if they had responded faster, by the time i wrote the first email all the funds were already gone. On a related matter, 4 days after my original email to them, I forwarded them information that the guy still had 25k in an account they had yet to find and freeze but again, ub appeared to ignore that missive. I have withdrawn the rest of my funds from UB and will almost certainly not play there again.

After my initial contact with the sites, I complimented stevie on his hacking job and started chatting with him. He bragged about other people he had hacked or scammed and gave me some information about his hacking setup as well as other places he had accounts. To brag, he even sent me AIM's from several of tilt's sponsored pros' AIM screen names. Of course, I immediately passed all the information on to stars and tilt (I'm still hoping ub will forward it to the appropriate department) and from what I understand, this information was actually useful. I understand this because Stevie began sending me death threats and telling me how I “f***ed” him a few hours after my conversation with him (which had actually ended rather gentlemanly, with him complimenting my limit hold ‘em game and me complimenting his hacking abilities and general proficiency at scumminess). He even called my cell phone to threaten me.

Anyhow, I'm expecting to hear about getting money back any day now and will post an update when I do.

Matt

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What doesn't make sense here to me is that he wanted to swap online cash for real cash... so this would mean he sent you online cash and you met up in person and paid him real life cash at the borgata? If this is the case that means you saw him in person and exchanged cash?

If that's what happened then I don't see what calling the poker sites would do since he sent you money from some hacked account anyway and doesn't care what happens to it.

Or does this mean he wanted you to send him cash online and you would pay him cash in person? If this is what happened i'd be surprised that you sent money first and expected to get it in person from someone u'd never met before.

[NNNNOOOOONAN]

Hoss would send him money online, and neither SDP or the FTP pro would meet him IRL to give him money. So Hoss get's screwed.

[Hoss_TBF]

I would give him online cash and he'd give me cash in person. It is someone I had met before and someone with a pretty sterling reputation in the poker world. And--amazingly luckily for steve--I had played at a rebuy table at the wsop with the guy and run out of cash and the guy gave me more cash, having never met me before that. At that moment I said, "note to self: you owe [unnamed ftp pro] one."
In retrospect, I feel pretty foolish and realize that I'm way too trusting when it comes to transfers, but nonetheless, stevie had me pretty convinced.

[SlowHabit]

I hate how instant messaging make us so lazy. How hard is it to call up the person and confirm [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Or text messaging for the shy ones.

[iceman5]

How does he go from hacking your AOL account to getting your Full Tilt info and password?

Also, are we talking about an AOL account or an AIM account? You can have AIM without ever having AOL, right?

[ikestoys]

hey so i got the ftp account of the aim spammer, i made him transfer me money first, and he sent me 550 ftp for 500 epassporte (that i needed to get rid of)

so i got 50 bucks, and got rid of my epassporte money...


GREAT SUCCESS!

his account is: malicous222

unfortunately I think my account may be locked

[Phresh]

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How does he go from hacking your AOL account to getting your Full Tilt info and password?

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Most people use the same password for everything. He got their AIM accounts and then tried the same pass for FTP.

Also, why the [censored] hasn't anybody contacted AOL/AIM about him?

[imabigdeal]

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hey so i got the ftp account of the aim spammer, i made him transfer me money first, and he sent me 550 ftp for 500 epassporte (that i needed to get rid of)

so i got 50 bucks, and got rid of my epassporte money...


GREAT SUCCESS!

his account is: malicous222

unfortunately I think my account may be locked

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didn't this sn play the 10k HU tournament on stars and also 100/200 NL lately?

[showtime808]

yeah, he also played a pretty decent grudge match with stealthmunk maybe...early last week?

[Spechel EDD]

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