ALL MY ACCOUNTS WERE HACKED INTO

[Skipolo]

I would like to take this opportunity to reach out to the twoplustwo community and ask for help. My accounts have been compromised and $ has been stolen.

BACKSTORY:

I believe I know who the suspected villain is. A few days ago I was having a conversation with HoldemGod( Avatar is Homer Simpson) from Stars on AOL Instant Messenger. I had spoken with him from time to time for about 2-3 weeks. He asked me to look over some hands for him, but unfortunately, I was absent minded and DL'ed what I thought was HH's but rather it was an EXE file. This allowed HoldemGod to plant a trojan virus or a keytracker virus on my computer.

This morning all but $470 in funds were gone from my neteller. All were sent to Full Tilt Merchant. I just emailed Full Tilt to find out which account these funds were sent into as they are not in my account (which is Rojosox) The funds here were $25,200. ALSO, this person who hacked my stars account and was asking everyone to trade $ from Stars to Full Tilt. I have found out that this person successfully transfered $25000 to $tinger88 and $tinger88 (whose AIM I do have) transferred the $25k on Full Tilt to eddiefelsonn If you know who this player is please help me. For some weird reason there are still funds in my pokerstars account. I have just sent an email off to Stars and asked them to freeze my account. I sent them 3 emails in the last hour and no email has been returned. This person also got into my aol account because they "new" emails of the transfer were in the "recently deleted" I ask any and all of you for your help on this matter. I want to know what I can do to 1. Retrieve all funds stolen and 2. Go about prosecuting who I believe has my funds.

I apologize for the non thoroughness of this message but I am in a state of shock right now.

Also, if someone could email stars and tell them this story I would appreciate it just in case he had support@pokerstars.com blocked OR had any email i sent there to be redirected elsewhere.

Thank you for your time,
Jared

[tcorbin16]

holy [censored] skip this is terrible....

gl w/ this man

[Stinger88]

Yah...so I was 4 tabling today, 2 of which were Stars 25/50, and Skipolo is at one, at least I thought. He says hi to me and then asks if I want to do a trade, and since I'm a bit low on Stars I'm all for it....so he sends first and then says to send to his friend EddieFelsonn on FT. I should've realized something was up but I was concentrating on my games and not thinking, so I got the money on Stars and then sent on FT.....so then Skip IM's me and tells me everything that happened....I emailed FT about this also hopefully they can resolve it, gl skip.

[HERE_2_gamble_]

Sick a similar thing happened to me, they hacked into my account and deposited money from my c/c and then withdrew to netteller and moneybookers. get on the phone emails are a waste of time... mine was 7/8k$ GL

[shaniac]

Man this really [censored] blows. I got scammed by a fake dariominieri for 1500, and that sucked. This sounds about 20x worse.

I dunno what the moral of the story is, "never trust anyone" maybe?

[Ansky]

holy [censored] dude

[Rekrul]

Not that this is a great time to make a joke but.

Doesn't this belong in BBV?

[Entity]

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

[Rekrul]

Oh you did post it in BBV

Yeah if this happened to me I would spend a year of my life trying to hunt the person down and kill them.

If I failed for a year I'd probably give up and try to build a roll again.

[Skipolo]

No email I have sent in the last 2 hours has been replied to by Full Tilt OR Stars which leads me to believe that the hacker is misdirecting my emails. I would appreciate if more than one person would email them with this story. I'd love to contact stars and full tilt by phone but I don't know what #s to call because they dont offer phone support. Is there any emergency #'s I can call? Please for the love of god help me in this dire situation. I appreciate your support and sentiments.

-Jared