PSA/Warning: Scam/Spam email originating from PokerStars (the age of the pisces ends) - Page 2 - Poker News

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?

Nice, that's nice.

They should def run some value added end of world tourneys imo.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 10:38 AM

#27

My7hus

grinder

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 461

+1 got it twice too

Quote

12-14-2012 , 10:48 AM

#28

therightdeal

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 6,256

I got it three times, it makes you wonder if your details are even safe with Stars, who sit by and say **** all.

Very professional.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 10:55 AM

#29

Kevmath

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 28,242

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pascal-lF

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

It's important for those going for SuperNova Elite, obv.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:03 AM

#30

FullArsenal

centurion

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 195

Move this to Internet Poker and pm Stefan or another rep, to post an official reply.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:20 AM

#31

MidniteToker

grinder

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 600

I posted a thread yesterday in Internet poker and it was unceremoniously removed and tacked on to Zoo Chat. If someone knows the mods for that board maybe they'd like to clear a new thread with them. I really wanted some feedback from someone from Stars.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:24 AM

#32

Pascal-lF

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,997

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevmath

It's important for those going for SuperNova Elite, obv.

Oops - meant it as in, what does it matter? The world's going to end!

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:28 AM

#33

Marco Valerio

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 168

Quote:

Originally Posted by FullArsenal

Move this to Internet Poker and pm Stefan or another rep, to post an official reply.

There should be an eschatology sub-forum for sure.

For those into this sort of thing, here's a 4-minute video about why the world won't end next week, put together by NASA.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:39 AM

#34

UpThePosh

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 131

I got 2 of these emails.

If this little freak got our email address, what other personal info did he get?!?! Name, Address, DOB, Bank Details?!?!

Hope Stars let us know he's been fired and reported to Police and prosecuted (if it's a crime).

Quote

12-14-2012 , 11:45 AM

#35

FullArsenal

centurion

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 195

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marco QJ

There should be an eschatology sub-forum for sure.

For those into this sort of thing, here's a 4-minute video about why the world won't end next week, put together by NASA.

You can beg for food and attention in:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...low-stakes-nl/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10...gas-lifestyle/

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:07 PM

#36

salesbeast

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5,308

The Age of Pisces ends on the 21st December and the Age of Aquarius begins on the 25th December. There will be three days of darkness in between these dates.

Got it as well and it referenced a .com website.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:15 PM

#37

MMD

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 6,553

Stars have more important things to so like stopping volume pools to care about stuff like this.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:16 PM

#38

eaglesfaan

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 456

Someone is getting fired

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:17 PM

#39

AndyM2033

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,936

Yeah I got it too. Wondered why it was in my inbox, just marked it as junk and deleted it.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:24 PM

#40

SpeedLimiter

veteran

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,116

I'm conflicted because this information contradicts last nights fortune cookie

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:33 PM

#41

Pitbullo

adept

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 839

You should know GMail email addresses ignore dots and everything after a plus symbol. Also, googlemail = gmail.

All the following address are same:

[1] john.doe@gmail.com

[2] jo.hn.do.e@gmail.com

[3] john.doe@googlemail.com

[4] jo.hn.do.e@googlemail.com

[5] john.doe+spammysite@gmail.com

[6] jo.hn.doe+spammysite@googlemail.com

This is great because you can use this to help identify spam. For eg; Use [7] john.doe+xvideos@gmail.com to register on xvideos. Now if you receive spam addressed to this address, you instantly know it was xvideos.

So you have infinite email addresses from just one gmail address. You can use this to create multiple accounts on same site using different aliases.

taken from reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKno...nore_dots_and/

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:42 PM

#42

MicroRoller

veteran

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 2,533

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMD

Stars have more important things to so like stopping volume pools to care about stuff like this.

From other accounts it sounds like someone that works at Stars managed to get the email addresses of their customers and use PokerStars' infrastructure to send email to those customers. That is a breach of security.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:57 PM

#43

URWRSTNTMARE

journeyman

Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 275

I got this email twice too

Quote

12-14-2012 , 12:58 PM

#44

MidniteToker

grinder

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 600

****ing A', validation:

Quote:

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to us.

We are aware that yesterday, one of our employees violated internal policies
by accessing our marketing database and sending an unauthorised
communication to a small number of player email addresses, including yours.

We identified the method that he used to circumvent our policy, and
immediately implemented measures to ensure that no individual in the company
can repeat this.

We take safeguarding personal data very seriously and have industry-leading
measures in place (both technically and organisationally) to protect against
any misuse of such players’ data. Restrictions and limited individual
permissions are in place to minimise the potential for sensitive personal
data to be accessed and/or compromised and we have no reason to believe that
any sensitive personal data has been compromised in this case.

We have launched an internal investigation into the incident and have
temporarily removed the specific employee’s access to any of our internal
systems. Once our investigation is complete we will take the necessary
internal steps to ensure the ongoing integrity of our systems and our employees.

We urge our customers who received this "spam" to delete it as they would
any other email of such a nature, and we will work very hard to ensure that
no similar violation of our policies occurs.

Best Regards,

***
PokerStars Support

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:03 PM

#45

moki

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8,051

Dude's gonna get fired.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:05 PM

#46

Sciolist

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 17,526

At least.

Was that in his horoscope?

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:41 PM

#47

spewpitz

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 143

Shame, would feel bad if he gets fired. Guy might have been sincerely trying to warn people or something lol. Prob not well imo as he / she was obv gonna get caught. Not the smartest move...

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:44 PM

#48

Sciolist

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 17,526

There's no way that someone can do that without knowing they shouldn't be.

I assume it's a breach of PS' privacy policy and I imagine that has legal implications that mean whoever did this needs to be fired. You can't missclick send a mass email with PS' tools.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:50 PM

#49

smithy2588

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 398

Yeah got this twice, insta-deleted. Thought it was strange that it was in my inbox and not junk folder.

Quote

12-14-2012 , 01:56 PM

#50

spewpitz

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 143

Yeah true. Even more idiotic as 95% of people won't even open it. Anyway, I thought we were all supposed to die 2 days ago? Not another one a week later ffs!

Quote

Page 2 of 5

First

1 2 3 4 5

Last

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 2 of 5

First

1 2 3 4 5

Last