http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/Mexx86

his fb profil, he tried to befriend every known pokerplayer so if he ever was near your laptop/pc since february this year theres a high chance he scammed you aswell

What a piece of ****.

mexx86 (I read in a German forum)

probably at 400/800 8Game

so according to the articles he scammed a ton of high stakes regs, one of which was swiss and another one austrian (those two seemed to have lost the biggest amounts). they confronted him at a hotel and got him to confess (even though he later retracted his confession because he claimed to be threatened at the time he admitted to the scam).

r3fl3x - unless you mind saying, when you talk about "your house" being scammed, who are you talking about? you seem to be the only one so far talking about this here who has been directly affected

google translation of the latest article:

http://www.hochgepokert.com/2011/10/...tiger-genannt/

"As reported kurier.at, there is more information on the recently announced, suspected fraud online poker. In the main suspect it will be at the London-based German Maximilian A. act, which supposedly installed on the computers of his victims Trojans in order to spy out their hole cards in online high stakes games.

The minimum number of victims estimated the online portal to more than two dozen well-known poker players, among which are apparently also contains two Austrians. Although the damage caused is not known exactly, it should go in the large-scale fraud series "millions". According to the online portal to give some individuals to have lost up to 500,000 € to the alleged fraudster.

Allegedly was among the high-stakes regulars for weeks already speculated that a massive fraud is liable to the poker community.

Furthermore, it came as part of the Poker EM in Baden-personal encounter of the two victims with Maximilian A., which should have forced the alleged perpetrator in his hotel room to a confession. A conspicuous feature of the article of the courier, is that there should be a victim of a Viennese woman who is said to have lost approximately $ 40,000 to Maximilian A.. In the sentence before they are referenced, however, have two males, which Maximilian A. asked for an explanation.

The editors of Hochgpokert.com continues to work on the case and consider whether it is the alleged perpetrator really Maximilian A. To date still remains open as to who were the two persons, identified against which the LKA Lower Austria for imprisonment and coercion."

What sites did this take place on?

Wow! His friend list on FB looks like a who's who in the poker community.
Nasty scam.

What site was this scam on and what was the alleged perp's screename?

having a 400k BR and not investing 1k on computer protection........

GG GUYYYYYYYYYYYYS

not sure if the scammed ppl wanna get outed so iam not gonna tell names but the list is very long,
for my house u prolly wont know them anyways

it took place on all sites with multiple accounts involved

hs hu plo on ipoker by any chance?

I wonder how many people have scanned their pcs religiously after reading this thread

Well I think it would be important to know the scammers Sn's.

scam after scam on on-line poker. and yet, people will line up to play it again if it ever becomes legal in the U.S.A.

Apart from preventing physical access to your poker machine and paying an armed guard to watch over it - how do you intend to spend your $1k protecting from a newly crypted trojan that's fully undetectable by all AV engines? What about a 0-day exploit launched against your machine? Do you really think when there's millions to be gained that just throwing $1k on a vague "protecting your computer" idea is going to be effective?

Sounds like this scam came down to the human element. We all need to trust people to be near/around our machines - unless we live in a cave. Sometimes we make wrong judgement calls and that's what appeared to happen here.

mexx86 i read on a different forum, but not sure if it´s true...

besides large parts of the scam has to be taken place at FTP because stars hasn´t got 8Game up to 400/800?!
That would imply that Ashraf at least would have no possibility to withdraw it

stars has 8 game that high.

Yes, because the consequences of doing something like this in a regulated US environment is JAIL!

Confirmed. I played a fair amount with Max in various 8 game mixes over the last few months and he always said he preferred shorthanded games. He is a legitimately talented mix player who was beating 100200 200400 8 game pretty well but I guess we'll see if he was able to cheat people on stars as well (myself included)

Pretty Sure Luke Schwartz was playing him last week iirc, and was berating him in chat calling him a cheat etc etc sure it was 100/200 8 game, on stars

Well Luke just talks sh*t nonstop so I doubt he had any inside knowledge at that point.

Consequences will never be the same...

Does this relate to the amounts that several HS regs was getting payed back from stars not so long ago ?? I know stinger said he received about 20k.

i.e. is stars aware of this ?

That does seems the case, but pretty big coincidence after todays news.

Try investing $3 in some crazy glue and squirting in into your USB ports.

This will never end ... scandal after scandal...cheater after cheater... this totally blows...and gives more ammunition for those who oppose online poker... F&^%