Fossilman's Stars Account Hacked?

[Greg (FossilMan)]

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Yes, my account was hacked.

It appears that this ikeyrson bastard managed to guess my password after making multiple attempts. He then played like an idiot as you are all aware, blatantly dumping chips from my account to his account. Based upon dozens of emails sent to PokerStars security, they jumped in and froze his account. So, all of my money will be returned, and he gets nothing.

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Not to be a dick but i know of people(some have posted on 2p2) that got their stars acct hacked and stars does not give them their money back. WTF?

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There are two major types of hackers, referred to by PS security as malicious and joy-rider. The malicious types do what this jerk did, they try to get all of your money into their own account to steal it. When this happens, and the person is caught before the money leaves PS, then it is easy enough for PS to freeze the account, do their internal paperwork, and then put the money back into your account.

The joy rider types hack your account, and then they play big games against other players using your money. They lose to innocent third parties. Once this type of hacking is discovered, your money is gone, because PS isn't going to take it away from the innocent third parties who were just fairly playing the available games. And if it was your account that was hacked, not PS computers or software, then they won't repay you out of their own funds for money lost due to somebody guessing or stealing your password.

As far as I know, that is why I got my money back, and some other people have been hacked and permanently lost their money.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)