ISP Secrurity Alert about a Paradise Poker email

[MuckinWinners]

I received an email from Paradise Poker about the 2006 Paradise Masters starting. When I try to open it, I get this message.

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Select Delete Message button to delete the message or Show message button to view the message contents.

This message may be fraudulent and may ask you for personal information like your Social Security Number, bank account number, credit card number, etc. This message may also contain links to web sites that look official that ask you for this information.

Spammers often ask for this information in an attempt to steal from you or illegally use your identity and credit rating.


AT&T Worldnet Service has identified this message as potential fraud for one or more of the following reason(s):

The email displays links that do not match the real destination (URL)
The email contains links that are numeric IP addresses


Message From: "Paradise Poker" <steve@paradisepokermarketing.com>
Message Subject: 2006 Paradise Masters Series starts on April 1st!



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This is the first time that anything like this has happened. I have Paradise as a "trusted" site, but I guess ATT is intercepting things earliers and earlier now.

I guess that it could have something to do with me reporting a lot of spam/junk emails over the last few months for my other email accounts.

Just thought I would see if anyone else has experienced this.

[stigmata]

It's probably fine.... I get this with my mail scanner picking up things from poker sites all the time. The problem is this part:

Message From: "Paradise Poker" <steve@paradisepokermarketing.com>

Many of the poker sites seem to do this, and send the email from a different address then the actual site they claim to be. This therefore looks like a fraud attempt. As long as the email is just telling you about current promotions, etc, then i'm sure it's benign.

If it asks you to follow a link & log in or something, then it's probably fraudulent.

[Peter Harris]

isn't the site "paradisepokermarketing.com" different to "paradisepoker.com"?? That may be part of the issue...

[GrannyMae]

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isn't the site "paradisepokermarketing.com" different to "paradisepoker.com"?? That may be part of the issue...

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steve@paradisepokermarketing is conmpletely legit, and part of paradise.

steve is the marketing manager, and this is one (of many) of his email addy's. this one is used to send promo info.