PSA/Warning: Scam/Spam email originating from PokerStars (the age of the pisces ends) - Poker News

Hey guys, Just to warn you I received an email today from help*r@horaton.com Seemed weird that it went straight in to my inbox rather than the spam folder... a little more searching and I found some guys talking about receiving something from the same email that i did. Anyway they did some checks and found it's a guy from the Isle of man and that the thing that seems to link all the people that have received this email is that they all play on Pokerstars.

Just a friendly warning, no idea how malicious (if at all) the email is but i can't imagine unsolicited emails like this sent to pstars players is going to result in anything good.

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Ok found the owner of the domains linkedin account

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luke-sutherland/17/7a7/993

Current over view:
Business Intelligence at PokerStars.com
Marketing Consultant at Pig Honey Cider Project

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I reported the email to stars after determining that it was from their servers. "Technical support" assures me I'm wrong. I assured them that as a sysadmin with 15 years experience, I know damn well how to spot fake email headers, and these aren't fake. The email is from within Stars. I found an email for what I think is their systems team, I emailed back "support" and the systems team.

I'm kinda steaming that some stars employee seems to have decided to spam us, and that "support" is blinding themselves to it.

There was a further link to the original forum where they found this and were discussing it, but as it's an external forum (AKA not 2p2), I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link and would rather err on the side of caution so that the thread stays up.

Also had to chuckle at the bolded part

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12-14-2012 , 07:41 AM

Sciolist

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Originally Posted by Mr.McNitt

And because I hate stars so much for being pricks

Well quite.

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12-14-2012 , 07:45 AM

MidniteToker

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I'd suggest changing this thread's title or the other one (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/96.../#post36196658) to include something like "the age of pisces ends.." so that people who have no clue the email was related to stars can find the thread. People are more likely to recognize this concerns them if they see the start of the email in the thread title instead of "scam email from pokerstars", which they may not realize is what they received. OP, can you pm a mod or something for that?

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12-14-2012 , 07:49 AM

umoneymeok

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i received one from horaton@horaton with sum bs about the age of pisces end and age of aquaries begins .

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12-14-2012 , 07:55 AM

MeleaB

See my Commercial Software thread

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From the link:

December 21st is the final day of our age – The Age of Pisces, on this date you should celebrate and show thanks for the life you’ve been given.

On December 22nd the Sun will not rise. A Cosmic/Electrical Storm will engulf the Earth. No Electrical or metallic objects will work. The Darkness and the Storm will last for three days, the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of December.

Stars, will there be Double VPP days to make up for the three days we're going to lose to the Darkness?

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12-14-2012 , 07:55 AM

Mr.McNitt

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@midnitetoker: done

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12-14-2012 , 07:58 AM

starvingwriter82

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Originally Posted by MeleaB

Obvioiusly not, you can see clearly that as compensation they're giving free Sunday Storm tickets to everyone, that's why they expect the tournament to last three days.

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12-14-2012 , 07:58 AM

spewpitz

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Got one from helper @ horaton. com. Same bs about pisces and 3 days of darkness. I just snap deleted it, but strange it didnt go to my spam folder.

Last edited by spewpitz; 12-14-2012 at 07:59 AM. Reason: email link

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12-14-2012 , 08:23 AM

Da33le

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it's too early in the morning for my brain to understand this. Was this the email being send by the stars employee?

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December 21st is the final day of our age – The Age of Pisces, on this date you should celebrate and show thanks for the life you’ve been given.

On December 22nd the Sun will not rise. A Cosmic/Electrical Storm will engulf the Earth. No Electrical or metallic objects will work. The Darkness and the Storm will last for three days, the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of December.

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12-14-2012 , 08:26 AM

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MidniteToker

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Yes, that's the email.

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12-14-2012 , 08:30 AM

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Big_Mick00

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Had same email from helper.horaton

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12-14-2012 , 08:39 AM

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Droschopf

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Yes, had this e-mail too and I'm customer of Stars. It was not in the spam folder. I did not open it because the name was unknown to me.

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12-14-2012 , 08:53 AM

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woodys

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Thread is hilarious thanks guys. 7 days to go I guess.

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12-14-2012 , 08:54 AM

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SretiCentV

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wtf, I didn't get one and I love astronomy

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12-14-2012 , 09:01 AM

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Ginge

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Lol I also got the email.

Spoiler:

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12-14-2012 , 09:02 AM

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S.K

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dont really understand..

so a member of pokerstars support is abusing his position by emailing pokerstars clients to pedal his doomsday agenda, because it wont go into spam folder as its from stars?

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12-14-2012 , 09:12 AM

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donttiltboy

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yep got it twice for some reason

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12-14-2012 , 09:28 AM

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Jamie Platinum

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Originally Posted by donttiltboy

yep got it twice for some reason

Me too

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12-14-2012 , 09:31 AM

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MidniteToker

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Originally Posted by S.K

dont really understand..

so a member of pokerstars support is abusing his position by emailing pokerstars clients to pedal his doomsday agenda, because it wont go into spam folder as its from stars?

I don't think he's using stars "because it wont go into spam". More like he's abusing his position as a Stars employee by collecting email addresses from some Stars database and using that and the Stars network resources to spam his personal site.

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12-14-2012 , 09:56 AM

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Pascal-lF

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What does it matter when the world is going to end?

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12-14-2012 , 10:19 AM

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fivetypes

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Originally Posted by SretiCentV

wtf, I didn't get one and I love astronomy

I got this email, but this astronomy crap is ridiculous, ill stick with astrology tyvm, want to trade gmail addresses?

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12-14-2012 , 10:26 AM

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Danhands

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Yeah got two of these. When i use my noob sleuthing skills, (i.e. clicking view message source in hotmail) it shows the following:

Received: from 192.168.1.50 (sigma12 [192.168.1.12])
by mail50.pokerstars.eu

So pokerstars is sending me junk. Thanks PS!