Matt Marafioti and Samer Rahman allegedly conspire to hack other poker players - Page 57 - Poker News

never said he didnt I stated the FACTS that I know. If anyone has any proof that Matt used a program against them than they need to contact PS and give them the proof. I am not defending Matt at all I am attacking the maturity level of this forum which goes hand in hand with Matts lack of maturity. The focus needs to be addressed on Samr and his team

08-16-2012 , 12:23 AM

#1403

_MicahJ_

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

What if Matt is the best way to get to Samer and co?

08-16-2012 , 12:26 AM

#1404

aggo

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

It's obvious now (since we know so much more about the story today) that ADZ at some point knew first hand that there were HSNL pros that he often played with/against were being hacked.

So if ADZ did nothing about that, that's pretty scummy in it of itself.

08-16-2012 , 12:30 AM

#1405

pokervangelist

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Originally Posted by aggo

Totally agree

08-16-2012 , 12:55 AM

#1406

lazer

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from that hsnl thread from 2010...

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Originally Posted by FatalError

i heard stuff about this in monte carlo, ADZ seemed to know a lot about it down to pointing out one of the guys to me, i'm pretty sure he knows what their names are in real life etc. but he seemed to imply he knew more. at the time i thought it was just ADZ being crazy but now after seeing this it's clear that he knows more about who did it

08-16-2012 , 01:47 AM

#1407

norway20188888

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if matt says he could see molson cards, it means he manually hacked his computer.there is no way he could see molson cards without putting a usb device to put some sort of trojan inside his computer. Doing that is enough to be considered a scammer.

08-16-2012 , 01:50 AM

#1408

Kirbynator

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or maybe he meant he could have seen them if he did go through with it

08-16-2012 , 01:53 AM

#1409

norway20188888

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maybe.

08-16-2012 , 02:45 AM

#1410

Bevo54

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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy

It sounded more like an insanely rich guy/former partner on PL claimed he was owed millions and that may have been the dispute there.

I read two articles on it, I'm no expert, but they named that super wealthy guy as claiming he was owed millions and bringing a former gang leader to a meeting about the money, which I don't think the deceased PL owner paid.

Said wealthy Swede wasn't owed anything. He invested in PL pre-ipo, UIGEA happened, the company tanked well below forecasted value and the rich swede got pissed thinking he was scammed. He didn't know much about online poker or how devastating and out of the blue UIGEA was.

08-16-2012 , 07:07 AM

#1411

SansRemorse

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

Not one of his poker friends has come out accusing him of doing anything wrong.

What about Will Reynolds? You even reference it later in your post. It may have fallen short of a direct accusation, but it certainly pointed at it.

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If the poker community wants the truth than how about giving Matt the opportunity obviously through a third party or lawyer to address the situation in a proper forum. What Matt knows could bring down a vast criminal enterprise that has been a cancer on the poker world.

What's blocking this opportunity?

08-16-2012 , 07:55 AM

#1412

noremorze

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wow, speechless. Interesting read, too bad there are just so many scumbags in the pokerworld alone.

08-16-2012 , 09:00 AM

#1413

Rob999

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

We can all speculate all we want about Matt. What we do know about Matt is this-he is a very unusual person lets call him quirky and spoiled rotten(he is not a scumbag and if you really know him you will see he is harmless BUT EXTREMELY IMMATURE). He has many friends in the poker community and some are very high stakes players. Not one of his poker friends has come out accusing him of doing anything wrong. Lauren Kling who was with Matt all this time has been deafly silent! She needs to be confronted on this and should not get a pass.
Bottom line is Samer is 100% the villain here. If the poker community wants the truth than how about giving Matt the opportunity obviously through a third party or lawyer to address the situation in a proper forum. What Matt knows could bring down a vast criminal enterprise that has been a cancer on the poker world. Flame throwing on Matt will only continue the juvenile behavior that has come across twitter and this forum without working to get answers.
What we do know is this-
Samer 100% had access to peoples computers and saw hole cards.
Matt met Samer in San Remo and continued to converse afterwards.
Samer probably thought Matt would be a perfect recruit to use Matt to infect high stakes players Matt had contact with during PCA.
Samer showed Matt probably via skype or remote desktop that he could see hole cards.
Lauren Kling most probably released the chat log to a friend to post here to get back at Matt's twitter rant
Matt claims he NEVER used the program but could if he wanted to based on Will Reynolds disclosure. Also he had access to Will Molson's computer but never used it against Will. Molson has yet to confirm or deny any of this
Matt is SCARED for his safety and needs guidance on what to do.
Matt screwed up royally not reporting Samr but based on log he and the terms used he was scared

Pokerstars needs to investigate the HH for all accounts Samr and his team had access to and I would bet they are busy doing that now. Unfortunately, the malware is not a PS front end issue but with the victims computers. So obviously this will take some time to sort out. We all need to step back and let this play out in a proper manner. I hope the mods on the site start acting responsibly and do not allow the continued flames on Matt to continue without proper backup. Matt is a kid we love to hate but this is very serious business here and we all need to act within reason
Finally-
MATT QUIT FREAKING TWEETING YOU ARE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY!!!!

Very intelligent post.

08-16-2012 , 09:33 AM

#1414

LOCKED.DOWN

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From that HS scamming thread:

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I think it is likely that ADZ was scammed for >70k by paymenot.

Has anyone pointed this out yet? Pretty interesting if he set up his own scamming...

08-16-2012 , 09:55 AM

#1415

pokervangelist

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Originally Posted by SansRemorse

What about Will Reynolds? You even reference it later in your post. It may have fallen short of a direct accusation, but it certainly pointed at it.

What's blocking this opportunity?

I wasn't clear and apologize on that. Will Reynolds did out his text message and was an incredibly hard decision on Will's part. We should all be VERY proud of Will for having the courage to out Matt's ******ed text to him for the benefit of the poker community while obviously hurting a very close friend.

My point was so far not one friend (HSP) has come forward being infected with the trojan while Matt had access to their computers. Nor has any other friend had any knowledge of Matt actually using the trojan to benefit himself.

Matt obviously doesnt think his words out before it comes out of his mouth so at some point he would have admitted he was crushing the tables to his friends or his twitter posts. So far there has been no evidence of that.

08-16-2012 , 09:59 AM

#1416

Rob999

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

I tend to agree again and William Reynolds has become a poker commentating/posting icon in the last few months. He gets all of my respect.

08-16-2012 , 10:57 AM

#1417

SansRemorse

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Originally Posted by pokervangelist

We should all be VERY proud of Will for having the courage to out Matt's ******ed text to him for the benefit of the poker community while obviously hurting a very close friend.

My point was so far not one friend (HSP) has come forward being infected with the trojan while Matt had access to their computers. Nor has any other friend had any knowledge of Matt actually using the trojan to benefit himself.

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Originally Posted by Rob999

I tend to agree again and William Reynolds has become a poker commentating/posting icon in the last few months. He gets all of my respect.

I certainly agree with both about Mr. Reynolds. He's quickly moving up the list of good guys in poker, for me. My guess, though, is that he knows more than he's currently willing to share. There's several reasons for and against sharing too. Personally, I hope the "for" column wins out.

Also, I keep hoping we'll hear something from Negreanu about his account being hacked a while back. Though, if I understand correctly, he's been exiled from here. Is that right?

08-16-2012 , 11:05 AM

#1418

topdog87

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does anyone have the twitter rant between matt and his girl....a link maybe?...plz n thx

08-16-2012 , 11:37 AM

#1419

pepeman

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Originally Posted by topdog87

does anyone have the twitter rant between matt and his girl....a link maybe?...plz n thx

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=239
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=244
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=252

08-16-2012 , 11:52 AM

#1420

topdog87

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jesus...jus read those posts...what a loser...ok...she cheated...so did he...but to blast her online like that...shows how immature this kid is...i actually feel for LK

08-16-2012 , 11:57 AM

#1421

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