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[Closed] Phishing attempt?

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outspan
Joined: 07.02.2010

I just received this email (I censored the name because it's not an affiliated room):

Dear XXX Player,
For you as a player in XXX we want to offer you a chance to get a very nice return on your poker game!
If you would like to join, reply to this email with your username and nickname and you will get an email back as soon as you can Join the $4500 rake race. (this takes maximum 72 hours after replying to this email). On top of that you can play in an exclusive $150 freeroll on August 30th at 20:00 server time.
It is an ongoing $4500 monthly private race and also the freeroll is a monthly returning event. XXX hopes you like this offer, and looks forward to your reply.
See you at our tables,
Team XXX

An obvious attempt at phishing, since I don't even have an account there... but how did they get my email?

And also, the email they used comes from the domain of the poker site. I don't get it.


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Maybe you should actually post the name so that we'd know and be prepared


Jim4rdo
Joined: 03.10.2010

Hi guys,

I'm forwarding this to the bosses, who will get back to you on this, but thank you for alerting us, hopefully others can stay vigilant to it.

Best regards,

Jim


Hey Outspan,

Thanks for reporting this. Could you forward the email you received (including the headers, if you know how to do that) to marc.mulhern@pokerstrategy.com please?

As a general rule, we'd always encourage members to stay safe online by never entering their password anywhere other than the poker client itself, or, if on a website, by directly entering the URL into the address bar, i.e. not clicking on links in emails, etc.

Best,

Marc


outspan
Joined: 07.02.2010

email sent


tcs35
Joined: 31.01.2009
dydukas
Joined: 01.05.2009

How can they harm you if you only give your nickname? I'm not saying that's not phishing email but I don't get it. I guess I'm an easy target to scam. _confused: