First “Durrr” now Peter Jepsen?
We just reported the hack of another popular online high stakes grinder and hot the heel of that story comes this. It’s been reported by Poker News that Peter “Zupp” Jepsen was the target of a sophisticated scam network. The goal? To get his passwords to apparently hack his poker accounts which likely hold hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.
Taking the “Durrr” AIM hack to new levels, these guys went way beyond a simple hack. One of the scammers contacted Jepsen claiming he was from a large Swedish media company called OTW Media. They tried to get Jepsen to sign a contract to appear on an upcoming poker TV show that was hosted on a mirror site that looked just like the real OTW Media web site. Here’s where it gets interesting – The contract was supposed to be a .pdf but it was actually an executable (.exe) that held a Trojan horse. The Trojan horse was a key logger that would have given Jepsen’s private passwords to the scammers.
Fortunately Jepsen caught the switch-aroo and didn’t open the program. Both Swedish authorities as well as OWT have now launched a large investigation themselves. We’ll continue to report on this developing story, as it’s likely other pros were contacted in this scam.
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Alfredo Saade said
am March 20 2009 @ 12:50 am
Pokerstars is the biggest scam.
I opened my account, and began playing real money, i put 100 us dollars in the account and made over 300 dollars. I didn’t know anyone who played at pokerstars, and it happens that when i requested a cashout they told me that i was involved in chip dumping, ARE U KIDDING ME???, they asked me for an id and a few other things, so i was hoping that it was just a misunderstanding and sent everything they needed. After a few weeks the sent me an e-mail telling me that my account was cancelled and that the decision was final. I tried getting in contact but they just decided to ignore my e-mails.
If somebody knows what i can do, please help me.
Patrick Henry said
am January 10 2010 @ 7:37 pm
yeah i know happend to me the same exact way at fulltilt and what really sucks is they cant help me i am responsible for all deposits i was like omg.. $500 of my own money was being taken and these basterds couldnt do a thing about it? i also read about jon turner and his girlfriend i mean that $30,000 i feel for that but still these is my hard earned working money … they let me do minimum deposit of $10 and next thing u know im missing $540 from my bank account someone help me???