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A repost (maybe helpful) of what I posted in BBV:

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I'm sorry to hear about this story, but I have to be at least slightly skeptical here. Stinger is a very well known player who has a good repuation, and is also a co-owner of Cardrunners. I really just don't think he would ruin his repuation forever and disgrace his business for what is about 1 buyin at his normal games.

I think what's more likely is that someone transfered to him to either hide who they are, or he believed that it was actually you transfering him the money for some reason.

This post is another post that makes me worried, but I guess the best thing to do is just be careful what you download, and never keep very much money in any online site or Neteller.

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You're misunderstanding the post. The person successfully transferred $$ to Stinger88 as part of the way of getting the money off of the site. Stinger88 was duped in the same way that Skipolo was.

Skip's account is hacked, and the hacker then asks Skip's friends (other high stakes players) if they will do a money swap. He sends the $25k to their Stars account, and they send $25k to the FT account: however, the FT account is the account of the hacker, and not the account of Skipolo.

This really sucks, Skip. One of the big recommendations on this that I would look into is having a separate computer dedicated just to poker, and don't install AIM/whatever else on it. Keep it updated with security updates, and install the following programs:

1) Keepass - for password management.
2) Kaspersky antivirus.
3) DiamondCS ProcessGuard - helps prevent against rootkits and keyloggers.
4) Spybot S&D antispyware software.

This is just a pretty cursory bit of advice, but it'll certainly help high-profile targets such as yourself from being hacked in the future.

In the meantime, get a hold of FT support and Stars support ASAP.

Rob