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Old 08-11-2011, 09:47 PM   #1861
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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here's the post, it's on page 1 of google for "trixiemt75": http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/s...ad.php?t=85914

It's quite the advanced AI in this bot virus, to have figured out the host's choice of username on forums "trixiemt75", and to carry out "step 2" of the ponzi scheme, interrogating the host computer to find it's name is "Lara Miller" then adding her name to the list of names/addresses in the spam so she can get some of that ponzi $$$ flowing.
It also by chance found a forum that she had signed up to but never posted on - and never did post on afterwards.

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lol I don't believe for a second it was a virus. perhaps a malicious act by someone who knew her and her screennames though.
I didn't say I did either
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:50 PM   #1862
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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I'm going to post this chatlog Sergey gave me so you can see what kind of sociopath we're dealing with:

[22:14:51] Sergey xxxx: Sergey xxxx has shared contact details with jose.macedo10.
[22:15:30] jose.macedo10: Hi Sergey
[22:16:37] jose.macedo10: hey i will do the bank transfer i just saw the details
[22:16:39] jose.macedo10: But I think i might owe you more
[22:16:52] jose.macedo10: can you connect to teamviewer and check these stats out? I might be wrong
[22:17:02] jose.macedo10: I have it up to 22 k , but please lets double check
[22:17:26] Sergey xxxxx: well i wont let you connect to teamviewer anymore
[22:17:34] Sergey xxxxx: i wrote down what i think u owe me
[22:17:45] jose.macedo10: no but you can connect to me i mean
[22:17:53] jose.macedo10: check out my teamviewer
[22:18:04] Sergey xxxxx: that i can do
[22:18:48] jose.macedo10: ok please do, please use teamv__ieXXXrpro_______.com and you can save the screenshots and check for yourself I am trying to tell you I owe you 22.000 instead of what you claim but I could be wrong
[22:18:49] jose.macedo10: here is my ID
[22:19:02] jose.macedo10: xxx xxx xxx
[22:19:07] jose.macedo10: xxxx
[22:19:44] Sergey xxxxx: it says that the id doesnt exist
[22:20:00] jose.macedo10: What version of TV are you using ?
[22:20:47] Sergey xxxxx: well since we had a conection about a week ago last time
[22:20:49] Sergey xxxxx: it should work
[22:21:04] Sergey xxxxx: 6.0.10xxxx
[22:21:04] jose.macedo10: I broke my computer after all of this
[22:21:19] Sergey xxxxx: what version do u have?
[22:21:26] jose.macedo10: I am on a mac now
[22:21:31] jose.macedo10: if you connect from pc to mac get team____viewerpro______.com
[22:22:12] Sergey xxxxx: this is kinda silly
[22:22:20] Sergey xxxx: i need to get teamviewerpro?
[22:22:27] jose.macedo10: Yes if you have pc connecting to mac
[22:22:29] Sergey xxxxx: so basically u say that u might own me more
[22:22:42] jose.macedo10: yes but i wanna show you maybe i don't i want right to be right
[22:22:52] Sergey xxxx: all i want is my 14.772
[22:22:54] jose.macedo10: just get it and connect and see, if you dont want to sure i send you the 14 k
[22:23:02] Sergey xxxxx: if u think you owe me more you can transfer it
[22:23:08] jose.macedo10: ok done, but I really think I owe you more
[22:23:20] jose.macedo10: but CANT you just take a look see if those are your SN or someone else was playing?
[22:23:25] jose.macedo10: I am not sure i have alot of histories in my HEM
[22:23:51] Sergey xxxxxx: well my screenname is xxxxxx
[22:24:00] Sergey xxxxx: and considering ur switching computers
[22:24:18] jose.macedo10: I broke my laptop , threw it in the wall
[22:24:19] Sergey xxxxx: how will it be possible for you to import hh to all of them,
[22:24:27] jose.macedo10: I have backups of DB in my email
[22:24:32] Sergey xxxxx: just send me the money i asked for
[22:24:32] jose.macedo10: automaticly emails me every session
[22:24:40] jose.macedo10: OK np
[22:24:42] Sergey xxxxx: if u think u want to compensate my or mdmas time
[22:24:50] Sergey xxxxxx: u can do that
[22:25:09] Sergey xxxxxx: since i lost tons of time because of that ****
[22:25:12] Sergey xxxxxxx: as did mdma
[22:25:18] Sergey xxxxxx: but thats up to you
[22:25:27] Sergey xxxxxx: as soon as i get the money ill post in the thread
[22:25:29] jose.macedo10: ill send you the money you asked for
[22:25:30] jose.macedo10: Sure
[22:25:34] Sergey xxxxxxx: and tell everyone that all is good
[22:25:38] jose.macedo10: gl to you and sorry again
[22:25:45] jose.macedo10: i feel so ashamed over all of this
[22:25:46] Sergey xxxxx: ok when u gonna send it?
[22:25:52] jose.macedo10: tomorrow
[22:25:56] jose.macedo10: bank is probably closed now
[22:26:03] Sergey xxxxxxxx: ok
[22:26:12] Sergey xxxxxx: will you be availiavle on this skype name?
[22:27:01] Sergey xxxxxxx: also let me give you my mobile
[22:27:06] Sergey xxxxxxx: cause i tried calling you
[22:27:09] Sergey xxxxxxx: without success
[22:27:10] jose.macedo10: yes
[22:27:13] jose.macedo10: lets do skype
[22:27:22] Sergey xxxxxxx: +xxxxxxxxxxxx
[22:27:25] jose.macedo10: right now idont feel to good an dembaressed to call you
[22:27:28] jose.macedo10: but if emergency i will
??????

It seems like Jose JUST added Sergey???? Didn't he already have his Skype? It's:

(a) Someone is impersonating Jose to scam people?

(b) Jose is a brilliant genius that has already laid his tracks for a denial.
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:51 PM   #1863
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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I'm going to post this chatlog Sergey gave me so you can see what kind of sociopath we're dealing with:
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This would be sick if girah/dih is connected to the people trying to get viruses on pokerplayers computers. I also got that teamviewer scam link sent to me in messenger but it was like 2 years ago and this is not the only way they try to infect your computer and then play vs you. From the other thread and some poker contacts I know that these guys probably made a lot of millions with this kind of scam.

But I always thought these hackers are from sweden. Also it is normal in their scams that they use someone elses messenger account (they get password somehow). That way they have new victims (usually hs hu players) and already some trust because you dont know you chat with hackers instead of your messenger contact.
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:51 PM   #1864
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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On my skype, it shows Jose's ID to be vum_and_vrael, and when he chats it shows up in the box as Jose Maria Macedo, not Jose Macedo.10.
This is true, I remember seeing vum_and_vrael in one of the chat logs, I'll find it now.

Edit: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1145

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I posted this in the nvg thread.

I don't think it's relevant to the current scandal, but Girah contacted me in November 2009 and says I was:

[11/10/2009 7:59:09 PM] vum_and_vrael: Interested in some Poker coaching
[11/10/2009 8:08:37 PM] Jon Ettinger: Jon Ettinger has shared contact details with josé maria macedo.
[11/10/2009 8:08:46 PM] Jon Ettinger: hola
[11/10/2009 8:08:54 PM] josé maria macedo: Hi
[11/10/2009 8:08:59 PM] josé maria macedo: I just sent you an e-mail
[11/10/2009 8:09:02 PM] Jon Ettinger: oh lemme see

1.5 years later...

[4/9/2011 9:34:21 PM] josé maria macedo: You were the first poker person i ever added
[4/9/2011 9:38:09 PM] josé maria macedo: do you have the first post i sent to you?
[4/9/2011 9:38:11 PM] Jon Ettinger: planning on going to college next year?
[4/9/2011 9:38:12 PM] josé maria macedo: that'd be really funny
[4/9/2011 9:38:17 PM] Jon Ettinger: probably on my other computer
[4/9/2011 9:38:23 PM] Jon Ettinger: i looked at the skype history on this one but it's not on there
[4/9/2011 9:38:25 PM] josé maria macedo: aw you should put it up on twoplustwo
[4/9/2011 9:38:31 PM] josé maria macedo: that'd be really funny
[4/9/2011 9:38:32 PM] Jon Ettinger: i'll check for it
[4/9/2011 9:38:35 PM] josé maria macedo: i remember writing it perfectly
[4/9/2011 9:38:41 PM] josé maria macedo: because i was about to go to bed
[4/9/2011 9:38:42 PM] Jon Ettinger: how'd you find me originally? from the coaching thread?
[4/9/2011 9:38:43 PM] josé maria macedo: and you answered back
[4/9/2011 9:38:48 PM] josé maria macedo: and i was like
[4/9/2011 9:38:48 PM] josé maria macedo: oh!!!
[4/9/2011 9:38:52 PM] josé maria macedo: my first poker friend
[4/9/2011 9:38:55 PM] Jon Ettinger: haha
[4/9/2011 9:39:00 PM] Jon Ettinger: we never actually did a session did we?
[4/9/2011 9:39:02 PM] josé maria macedo: yeah from the coaching thread
[4/9/2011 9:39:11 PM] josé maria macedo: i dont think so
[4/9/2011 9:39:17 PM] josé maria macedo: you helped me with hands though sometimes
[4/9/2011 9:39:20 PM] Jon Ettinger: you probably didn't have the bank roll for it :P
[4/9/2011 9:39:24 PM] josé maria macedo: yea :P
[4/9/2011 9:39:35 PM] josé maria macedo: when i first talked to you i was where? 5/10 cent probably
[4/9/2011 9:39:37 PM] Jon Ettinger: how many hands have you played now lifetime?
[4/9/2011 9:39:43 PM] Jon Ettinger: hmm maybe not quite
[4/9/2011 9:39:44 PM] josé maria macedo: probably 1.3 million or so


According to Jose, this was before he met DIH. He asked me about DIH in April 2010, presumably before he had contacted him.

[4/27/2010 2:00:29 PM] josé maria macedo: Hey would you recommend Dogishead as a PLO coach? Assuming learnedfromtv hasn't answered me yet and probably is full


I never coached Jose or phone called w/ him on skype, and aside from that one conversation in April 2011, hadn't talked to him in ~1 year, but in early 2010 he would message me somewhat frequently on skype to ask questions or talk hands. At some point like 6 months into his playing career, he started asking me about hands he played at 10/20 and I definitely had a WTF, is this guy serious reaction. But when I saw the Prodigy thread, by which point we weren't in contact anymore, I figured he was legit. He admitted this to me about how he broke into 25/50.

[4/9/2011 9:50:32 PM] josé maria macedo: i ran 200k above ev when i moved up to 25/50

Anyway, whatever influence DIH had later on Girah's poker persona, I think it's pretty clear he's not a DIH invention. He was always nice to me while soliciting advice, and did seem to have a very sharp poker mind.

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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

To kjemmy

Open a new thread on NVG man, make this as public as you can.

GL and scan your PC
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I don't know if he has been hacked, but i doubt it's José who's behind this new scam. Why?

a) Why would he pay back the money he won by scamming the Poker Group on Skype, plus 30k compensation, and then try to scam the same guys? Doesn't make any kind of sense.
b) How can a kid who needed help from others (Haseeb) to registrate the domain for his poker site, now be able to pull of this kind of thing (registrate domain + create site, etc)?
c) Why would he do this? Really, the kid is rich (and i'm not saying he's rich because of the 2M he won, he obviously has a lot of money [he just attends one of the most expensive private schools in Portugal, he lives in one of the most expensive places in our country, etc]) why would he need the money?
a) Initially, the extra 30k was floated out there in the hopes that it would keep things from going deeper.
b) He didn't need HQ to register it, HQ simply said that he did which is more likely to mean that it was not true, than true.
c) Just because he family is rich, does not mean that he is rich. Furthermore, there are reasons for scamming beyond the monetary gain.

It is all very reasonable. It's also very reasonable to believe that somebody else is now pulling the strings.
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:55 PM   #1867
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

ok, so today jose im'd me on facebook asking me to proofread a letter he was going to post on 2p2. He wanted me to download teamviewerpro and linked me that website. I clicked it and it brought me to what looked like the actual teamviewer website. Now wtf should I do...I wasn't going to post this, but as soon as I found out he was trying to scam me to somehow i decided to.

Here is some of chat log

Hello!

7 hours agoMatt Miller
hey'

7 hours agoZe Macedo
How are things with you Matt?

7 hours agoMatt Miller
um pretty good, are you okay?
whats going on?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Yeah rough times but trying to redeem myself
How are you running

7 hours agoMatt Miller
i see, im really curious as to the whole stroy myself
um farily well i guess

7 hours agoZe Macedo
You been playing anything

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ya on merge, on black chip poker
have you been reading the threads

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I have a letter id like you to see, before i post it
See what you think

7 hours agoMatt Miller
yes please

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Do you have teamviewer?
connect to me take a look i am writing it as we speak

7 hours agoMatt Miller
i don't, can you just copy paste it
it'd be much easier'

7 hours agoZe Macedo
it's not done, plus the chat is not good enough to post long things

7 hours agoMatt Miller
i wont post it i promise
email?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
just grab teamviewerpro.com if you don't mind

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok

7 hours agoZe Macedo
it's a small d/l
i give you my ID
wait

7 hours agoMatt Miller
huh?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
i give you my ID for teamviewer
connect to me once u have it

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok its downloading
also, jose, i think you should do a question and answer with 2p2

7 hours agoZe Macedo
i know, Ive just not been feeling to good theres no good way to explain yourself in these times

7 hours agoMatt Miller
okay whats your id and password

7 hours agoZe Macedo
255 463 911

7 hours agoMatt Miller
just 1 sec i really gotta use the bathroom

7 hours agoZe Macedo
85p7c3

7 hours agoMatt Miller
gimme 2 minutes

7 hours agoZe Macedo
letter
should be up when you connect

7 hours agoMatt Miller
it says a connection could not be established
you sure you got right id?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Are you using the TV Pro?
And not 6 ,

7 hours agoMatt Miller
just a sec
its not working, can you download micoko'
micogo

7 hours agoZe Macedo
are you using teamviewerpro.com? And Id not working?

7 hours agoMatt Miller
*mikogo

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I can try restart it see if it gives me a new ID

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ya i downloaded it

7 hours agoZe Macedo
hmm ill email yo uit once its done instead
and let me know what you think

7 hours agoMatt Miller
my email is xxxxxxxx@gmail.com
can i ask you some questions though?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Sure

7 hours agoMatt Miller
why did you need a staked if you won like 1.6mil
and did you make a post on craigslist ithin the last couple of days advertising your coaching?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
No
that's someone else

7 hours agoZe Macedo
People taking my name and making it even worse now I guess

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok i see
what have you been doing?
like i know you hinted at killing yourself, dont do that man
please

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I know, i sent some stupid emails but atleast I have sent back the money I owe people, a little left waiting for merge to come trough the transfers
going to probably quit poker , indefinetely

7 hours agoMatt Miller
also, is there really a friend, or was it you who was "dollarman" and saouroun

7 hours agoZe Macedo
both are me

7 hours agoMatt Miller
i see
why did you feel the need to scam people then

7 hours agoZe Macedo
dollarman is registered on a friend not related to poker

7 hours agoMatt Miller
if you won all this money

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Because i am a ****ing retard

7 hours agoMatt Miller
were you in like need of money

7 hours agoZe Macedo
to put it directly
No better way to say it, just got greedy
Not really but I ran bad and felt tilted

7 hours agoMatt Miller
okay, are you going to come throguh to the community about this
i know you may not want to, but i think it would be better for you

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I will, once I feel a little better
so much flaming right now

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ya i can imagine

7 hours agoZe Macedo
You are one of the few Decent that atleast talks to me properly

7 hours agoMatt Miller
but ya just send me the post and ill take a look when its done
ya, well im a nice person

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I will, gimme an hour or so
Thanks for not judging me to fast, altough i know what Ive done is irreparable

7 hours agoMatt Miller
few more questions though
are all of your results real? like the graph you posted in nvg

7 hours agoZe Macedo
yea
I wish you could get teamviewer to work I could show you some of the graphs for real, I am a good player really
And I can show you exactly

7 hours agoMatt Miller
please download mikogo

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Who I done wrong etc

7 hours agoMatt Miller
dude like im begging you to download it
i need to see this

7 hours agoZe Macedo
You sure your AV or Firewall is not blocking it ?
Because if its mikhogo it would be same if you cannot connect

7 hours agoMatt Miller
yes ive used teamviewer before

7 hours agoZe Macedo
try rerun teamviewerpro.com

7 hours agoMatt Miller
at least try mikogo

7 hours agoZe Macedo
just redownload it if it dont work ill get mikogo
can you give me link, and please try you as well reinstall

7 hours agoMatt Miller
you can also use skype

7 hours agoZe Macedo
www.teamviewerpro.com also give me mikhogo

7 hours agoMatt Miller
http://www.mikogo.com/

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I dont get on skype right now, to many people that flame me,

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ya, but if you can make yourself invisible
no one will know your online

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I can try, lets try all possibilities, I'll show you the truth there is
and the figures I cheated and won honest,

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok ya, try mikogo first
it would just clear so much up if i could see your results

7 hours agoZe Macedo
installing

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok
so basically, just to get this straight, you won millions, bought a house, got scammed by your uncle, started downswiniging, and just got greedy and then the scamming started

7 hours agoZe Macedo
yea more or less
ok how do i use this?
I have the panel up

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok
you just need to find the id
hit start session by right clicking the little "m" in the task bar

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Session is 514587266

7 hours agoMatt Miller
it says it is the incorrect id, damn
here if igive you my teamviewer there is a way to switch screens
wanna try that?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Listen, please try redownload teamviewerpro.com I think you have the wrong version Because I see you Authenticating then dropping out
if that don't work I think it's your FW or AV

7 hours agoMatt Miller
there is only one vertsion avialable for me to download

7 hours agoZe Macedo
on what website?

7 hours agoMatt Miller
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx
and when you link the teamviewer pro website it just takes me to that website

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Hmmmmm and u tried remove and reinstall?

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ill try again
ok what is the id
if this doesn't work i will give you my id and there is a way to switch screens

7 hours agoZe Macedo
255 463 911
85p7c3

7 hours agoMatt Miller
wont work, here is mine
461902168
3629
try it
then switch screens
password is 5818

7 hours agoZe Macedo
ok let me try

7 hours agoMatt Miller
not 3629
ok
now switch screens

7 hours agoZe Macedo
i connected fine
its youre firewall, let me enable for you quick

7 hours agoMatt Miller
no

7 hours agoZe Macedo
you will have this problems otherwise
ok how do i swicth?

7 hours agoMatt Miller
main bar
click it

7 hours agoZe Macedo
how?
ok wait

7 hours agoMatt Miller
the top main bar
on your computer

7 hours agoZe Macedo
ah i wa slooking your teamviewer

7 hours agoMatt Miller
whatyou sending

7 hours agoZe Macedo
it said you cancelled?
the picture of graph

7 hours agoMatt Miller
no
i want to see your screen

7 hours agoZe Macedo
didnt you wanna see the graph?
easier this way ? no?
i dont find switch screens?
Just let me upload the graphs and HEM

7 hours agoMatt Miller
id rather not jose, could be virus or soemthing
please just switch screens or use skype
to view screen

7 hours agoZe Macedo
OK i wouldn't do that to you oviously but i dont blame you
But HOW Do i do it?
Mine is in spanish

7 hours agoMatt Miller
the screen where your viewing my screen
there is a task bar like thing in the top center
there should be some like swap screen option

7 hours agoZe Macedo
You have teamviewer 6, i don't have the same bar

7 hours agoZe Macedo
Promise
Different versions

7 hours agoMatt Miller
please use skype then
itll be easiest
just stay invisible

7 hours agoZe Macedo
OK but can't you download latest teamviewer first? if i am invisible mode i don't think i can call, Henrik B And me tried this yesterday? yo had to be on
its ok man, you think i am full of it ofc, lets just not do this now
i will post all the stuff when I am ready things are hard right now

7 hours agoMatt Miller
ok, look, you have to see where im coming from here, i justw ant to be careful you know?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
ok i do understand you

7 hours agoMatt Miller
i will gladly edit the post if you email it to me

7 hours agoZe Macedo
I will man, thanks

7 hours agoMatt Miller
when will you emial it? hour or two?

7 hours agoZe Macedo
When I am done and ready

7 hours agoMatt Miller
okay, sounds good, sorry if it seems like im being unreasonable, i just want to protect myself, is all

7 hours agoZe Macedo
sure not a problem
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:59 PM   #1868
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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a) Initially, the extra 30k was floated out there in the hopes that it would keep things from going deeper.
b) He didn't need HQ to register it, HQ simply said that he did which is more likely to mean that it was not true, than true.
c) Just because he family is rich, does not mean that he is rich. Furthermore, there are reasons for scamming beyond the monetary gain.

It is all very reasonable. It's also very reasonable to believe that somebody else is not pulling the strings. Saying things cannot be one way, because they don't make sense is often simply a matter of not thinking from all angles.

a) I know that, but he paid the money aniways, after the scam got public.
b) When i can do things by my own i normally don't ask for help...but maybe José is different then me.
c) Revenge? I don't see why José would have that feeling...DiH in other hand...

I agree with that, but i feel like that everyone are rushing into conclusions without thinking too much about this.
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

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Old 08-11-2011, 10:03 PM   #1870
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sevendeuc24 i don't believe that's José...everyone was surprised by his brilliant english knowledge and now, no one see's that the guy who's behind this makes a lot of spelling mistakes.
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:04 PM   #1871
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I don't know if he has been hacked, but i doubt it's José who's behind this new scam. Why?

a) Why would he pay back the money he won by scamming the Poker Group on Skype, plus 30k compensation, and then try to scam the same guys? Doesn't make any kind of sense.
Someone in this thread already made the plausible suggestion that since his Lock poker funds were in jeopardy as soon as he got caught cheating, paying his victims back out of them would effectively have been a sort of good will freeroll, whether to save a little bit of face or potentially, as now looks possible, to set up future scams.

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b) How can a kid who needed help from others (Haseeb) to registrate the domain for his poker site, now be able to pull of this kind of thing (registrate domain + create site, etc)?
Its not like its impossible that since DogIsHead set up his website Girah has gone on to develop the sort of skills that would be useful in setting one up himself, maybe he got into it in parallel with becoming a scammer?

Or maybe DogIsHead isn't the only dodgy guy he knows who is able to set up a website?

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c) Why would he do this? Really, the kid is rich (and i'm not saying he's rich because of the 2M he won, he obviously has a lot of money [he just attends one of the most expensive private schools in Portugal, he lives in one of the most expensive places in our country, etc]) why would he need the money?
Your subjective opinion of how much he needs money is entirely irrelevant here - we already know that at the very least he wants it enough to resort to scamming.

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Old 08-11-2011, 10:08 PM   #1872
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sevendeuc24 i don't believe that's José...everyone was surprised by his brilliant english knowledge and now, no one see's that the guy who's behind this makes a lot of spelling mistakes.
I think you're getting hung up on the english issue too much, here.

No matter how fluent he is, english isn't his first language and he's probably in a really emotional state.
I know that when I'm panicking/really nervous, etc...I just don't give a **** anymore about syntax, semantics and what not and just write whatever.

Obviously before he was making an effort to express himself well, but take the most well-spoken person in the world and watch him or her drop down to talking like an uneducated thug when in a really emotionally unstable state.

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omfg it's crazy to see how persistent he was abt u installing it.
Yep, also this is extremely consistent with Jose's scamming style if you guys remember the earlier chat logs.
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:13 PM   #1873
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ok, so today jose im'd me on facebook asking me to proofread a letter he was going to post on 2p2. He wanted me to download teamviewerpro and linked me that website. I clicked it and it brought me to what looked like the actual teamviewer website. Now wtf should I do...
I'm not kidding, if you can get away with not turning on that computer again, then don't do it. Just take out the hard drive and hook it up to another computer to get your data off it.

You have no idea what executables could be infected by now. A really nasty virus can even try to embed itself in word doc macros or other filetypes.

If you can't just leave it turned off, unplug the network cable. If it's a laptop, turn off the wireless radio switch. You want to prevent the computer from communicating via the internet anymore.
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:15 PM   #1874
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Re: The Portuguese Poker Prodigy José “Girah” Macedo Scammed HSNL players for >$30,000 NVG xpos

Seems like that publicist is doing a hell of a job.
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:15 PM   #1875
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I'm speaking with Jose on the phone now. He says someone hacked his email and somehow got stuff me and Jose spoke about on the phone (info Jose had written down), hacked Jose's Facebook and made me believe it was him. The guy who was on Jose's Facebook somehow knew stuff no one else but Jose should know about (scam amounts, bank accounts etc etc etc), but it makes sense if he got a ton of info from Jose's email.

I'm speaking with him on the phone as I type this
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