[Poboy]

Originally Posted by smoore

Now... HOW did the scammers get his phone number?

From any affiliate site/rakeback deal he may have, or the site he plays on.

[smoore]

yup, possible. Another possibility I communicated in PM with imthatguy is that it's something poker related, but not online poker related. Party has the largest player base so the scammers just call everyone on the (probably stolen) phone list and shotgun "Party Poker" since that's the place with the highest chance of any random poker player having an account.

[imthatguy]

So essentially, had I picked up the phone the initial time they called, THAT would have been the scammers and since I started actually phoned the real number for pay-pro, I derailed the scam. Nice work me. I always get nervous when random people phone me looking for stuff. I'd have to say that this is the first time the internet has tried to pull a fast one on me. Wow. Thanks smoore especially for looking into the emails.

[smoore]

no problem.

AFAICT, phishing is a booming business. Every day I receive multiple paypal.com emails from scammers. I have yet to get one for online poker that I've noticed. Since I just bonus-ho'd most of the poker rooms there may have been a couple that I just discarded because I thought it was just standard promotional garbage.

[Sniper2075]

Originally Posted by JM

But what happens if you lose your PDA with all those passwords on it??

Well the program has all the info that is inside your wallet encripted and it requires a password to access the info. Also, this is my phone so I have it with me always which is nice, always have my passwords etc...

It also syncs to my PC with matching software and can print out a hard copy and keep in the safe. So I feel safe my info won't get out. Also, if I do lose my PDA/Phone. I just have to get home and open my wallet and start changing passwords if I really think they can beat the encription and I would probably do this. Like I said its not alot of sites but enough to take an hour to change them all, I'm only doing the ultra crazy password for financial stuff, it has a nice password generator that you give option and it will create a random, to some extent cause we all know computer can't do random, password.

Options are length, then check boxes for allowed caracters - use upercase letters, use lowercase letter, use numbers, use punctuation, and you can list the usable caracters.

You can also have the program use memory aids and make sure the password is pronounceable or be a Mnemonic Sentence heres an example, just went and created it for this, I just use a completely random series.
Password is
LjS525gyuDkN
Mnemonic Sentence is
Larry joined Santa's 525 gothic yokes until Dylan killed Neil.
I would nerver remember that crap anyway.

[smoore]

like the old unix joke?

Enter New Password:
penis
** PASSWORD TOO SHORT **