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If this is not already in the works or existing, all poker sites are seriously remiss in their obligations to customers...

There needs to be a cross site task force for dealing with fraud, scams, and outright thievery that takes place. What is common to most of the scams and hacks and thefts is that the villain transfer money on one site for a return transfer on another. In skipolo's case, for instance, the guy who hacked his account offered transfers on Stars for transfers on FullTilt, and unsuspecting players accomodated him.

If sites don't work together, there is basically no way to counter this without going through strictly legal channels, and this would not likely work if villain were not in the US or Europe. It they do work together, however, they can recover a lot. They would have to actually be dilligent and on the ball, (no responding to emails 36 hours later) and probably should offer a telephone hotline.

Really, scams and such are a HUGE threat to online poker: They scare potential customers; they scare (and piss off) existing customers; they give anti gambling zealots amunition. It really is in every sites best interest to pony up and build a cross site task force to police this crap. Until they do, it will only get worse.

/hastily jotted thought before heading to lunch

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Can someone explain how this theivery works? A person gains access to your Stars password and then drains it by asking a strangers on Stars to forward them money on FT (which the thief has an account)? Is that the jist of it? Does the thief gain trust of strangers by sending them money FIRST on Stars? I can't imagin strangers being so trusting and even if they were, how can the thief be sure the stranger will send him money on FT?