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Old 04-05-2007, 10:30 AM
Cooder Cooder is offline
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Default Spam on PokerStars email account

I got spam this morning from "poker-bonus-online.net" with a subject of "Win your way to the Playboy Mansion!" The links in the email were labeled "Cake Poker" and "thebonusdetective.com." This email came in on an account that I have only given to PS.

Could PS be selling email addresses? An inside job? None of the above?
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:54 PM
Rainbow Warrior Rainbow Warrior is offline
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Default Re: Spam on PokerStars email account

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"Win your way to the Playboy Mansion!"

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I got this, too.
I can't narrow down the source like you.

MORE IMPORTANTLY... can I buy directly into this tourney???
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Old 04-05-2007, 05:16 PM
Tachyon Tachyon is offline
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Default Re: Spam on PokerStars email account

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I got spam this morning from "poker-bonus-online.net" with a subject of "Win your way to the Playboy Mansion!" The links in the email were labeled "Cake Poker" and "thebonusdetective.com." This email came in on an account that I have only given to PS.

Could PS be selling email addresses? An inside job? None of the above?

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I got this email too. I got email from these punks a while back spamming FTP so I highly doubt this has anything to do with PS
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Old 04-05-2007, 07:00 PM
MicroBob MicroBob is offline
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Default Re: Spam on PokerStars email account

Stars selling the addresses - unlikely.
Some C/S rep stealing them seems possible.

But the fact that one is for Cake and another is for FT seems kind of strange.
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