[chipper57AA]

I believe I heard similar tales on 2+2 forums once but wanted to see if anyone else had the same experience with Party Poker.

I recently completed the Instant Bankroll program that Merlin told us about. I got the free cash and cashed out all the money from Party.

The next day I get a call and email from Pay Pro, the company that handles payouts from Party Poker. They start questioning me about my account stating that they need to ask me a bunch of questions about my account and that I have to answer else they will be forced to put my account on hold.

I called them back from my work number to see what they wanted. They asked for my name, address, email and birthday. Stuff I expected anyway. But then they said that I could not use my work phone number as a registered number so they said to change it to my home number and call back from home so that they could verify.

So later that day at home I call them back up. Well then they started saying that their records show that there were over 20 other people with different account names all accessing Party Poker from my PC and that they would not be able to allow me to keep my account open.

I laughed at this as my PC is on a private home network in my house and I know that nobody else uses my PC to play Party Poker. They started listing out the names of 20 people saying - do you know this person. NO. How about this person? NO. How about this person? NO!!!!!

After enduring 10 minutes of seemingly ridiculous line of questioning I began to wonder what the heck was going on. They said that they are only trying to protect me and my account from being mis-used and that they would need me to now fill out a form and submit a copy of my drivers license in order to keep my account from being locked up.

I'm almost laughing at this point. All my money is out of that Party Poker account anyway and I have no big desire to play at Party Poker anytime soon - but want to leave the option open just in case I WANT to play there again someday.

This form and photo ID copy sounds a bit bogus. They seem a bit paranoid about my PC connection. I use COMCAST as my ISP and have a floating IP address and get one from the pool of IP's that are available. So it may look to Party Poker that I'm sharing the same PC as all those other people.

My thoughts are this, I'm almost thinking that this Pay Pro company is pissed that I cashed out making money and not giving Party Poker any winnings off me. Now they want me to go through hoops to play there again. I'm about ready to tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.

I'm also very suspicious of all this extra information they want to gather from me - I don't want to fall victim to identify theft. Giving them my birthday and email address and mailing address already worries me.

Anyone else run into this problem? The company uses all outsourced workers from India to collect this info and do their dirty work. I smell a rat. What experiences have you all had with Party Poker?