13 Jul 11
Fake PokerStars Skype Phishing Scam
Since yesterday, forum users have reported receiving messages, seemingly from the PokerStars Support team, asking for their passwords in order to "manually check" accounts. We strongly recommend you don't do this.
One of the most important basic rules of the Internet is never to pass on sensitive account information or credit card data to third parties. This rule applies emphatically to anyone who receives a Skype message from the user "Chapness".
Reports in our German forum (here, for those of you who read German) state that a user claiming to be a member of the PokerStars Support team, is trying to get hold of people's Moneybooker passwords and account data.
In general: in accordance with their own general terms and conditions, PokerStars will never ask for your password and you only need it to log into your account.
In addition, we have received no information that PokerStars has started independently adding users on Skype, so it's very probable that this is a phishing scam.
Our advice: do not add this user or converse with him and under no circumstances should you give out information about your PokerStars or Moneybookers accounts!
#1
Jackalof, 13 Jul 11 16:21
I trusted him and gave all my data. He seemed trustworthy. This guy from the Internet.#2
Econom1sta, 13 Jul 11 16:26
Whaaaat!? People don't do that on internet!#3
burak220, 13 Jul 11 16:59
This guy said he was a high rank in the support team and told me he was gonna get me an entry into the sunday million and after giving him my information I tried to log in to my account and it said Unable to login, Incorrect username or password. Should I wait for him to respond to me, seemed pretty trustworthy.#4
wategun7, 13 Jul 11 17:32
^^level?!?#5
M1rCea, 13 Jul 11 17:33
INFIDELS!#6
johnboy1, 13 Jul 11 17:36
is this a late april fools joke hahaha#7
NightFrostaSS, 13 Jul 11 17:55
If someone needs such warning so he wouldn't give away his data to randoms claiming to be PS support such person deserves to lose his 10$ roll anyway#8
Luna1nc, 13 Jul 11 18:23
Night`ai.Nedaryk taip baisiai su nesupratingais užsieniečiais. :/ Verkia dabar koks vokietis diedukas, kad pokerio karjera baigės.
#9
datsmahname, 13 Jul 11 18:26
The sad part is that otherwise smart people can fall for these ridiculous scams. It seems so obviously stupid to give your info away, but we're quite convincing at times.#10
vladnz, 13 Jul 11 18:30
@datsmahname , if they fall for it they are obviously not that smart#11
ihufa, 13 Jul 11 18:59
these guys seem legit, don't be a pussy#12
wategun7, 13 Jul 11 19:09
^^lol. If you've never encountered similar situations in real life I guess it is very possible to fall for something like this. Especially if you were distracted at the time, and just autoresponded without thinking.I once gave away my details via the phone when I was very busy to someone claiming to be providing an upgrade for my mobile service. I only realised something was up when they asked me to set a password- and I asked them is this how they always set passwords...
#13
w34z3l, 13 Jul 11 20:08
Wow....I got my own article!!#14
mallikarim, 13 Jul 11 20:18
the chineese guys from WoW are after poker now LOL#15
Blade90, 13 Jul 11 21:29
NEVER EVER will any company ask u to give them a password that they have anyways as it is the password to their account. As far as moneybookers go... RLY... Why would they need your moneybookers password for ANYTHING. To fall for that u need to be rly naive...#16
cgoldie, 13 Jul 11 21:42
well if your dumb enough to give away passwords and logins to some random person you have no one to blame but yourself.#17
candylarue, 14 Jul 11 01:20
I got a bridge for sale if anyones interested.. Cheap ;) LMAO#18
Jkob, 14 Jul 11 06:14
#12 Possible or not, it's still dumb.