Online Security: Pro Poker Player Durrrr Gets Haxor3d
According to the rumor mill, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s AOL Instant Messenger account was hacked into this weekend. The would be scammers used the account to hit up friends of the Pro Poker Player for cash. Asking other online poker players (Mikey41414) for instance if they would send him cash via Money Gram in exchange for online poker chips. This is a pretty common practice among online poker players.
In the conversation below, you’ll see that Dwan’s messenger contact MIKEY41414 was more than willing to make the trade, asking the swindler on the other side of the internet screen where he’d like the money sent.
However, when the slimey culprit impersonating the online poker pro known as Durrrr answered Limi Peru, the virtual gig was up.
MIKEY41414: how about I get Tom to give me 10k to find the person behind the computer right now and cut your ****ing throat out you disgusting little rat ****
MIKEY41414: I hope your children get ritualistically raped for the next 30 years and that your face gets burned with a blow torch like that **** from Hostel – get a job you ****
As the conversation continues, MIKEY41414 threatened the would be scam artist with torture by blowtorch while outing him in the 2p2 poker forums. In an apparent effort to ensure the future safety of this not-so-smart internet scam artist, Tom Dwan made an offer in the 2p2 thread that provided for a $50,000.00 reward to anyone that can recover solid info on the alleged would be thief, and see him [safely] behind bars.
“does anyone know law well enough to know if it would be illegal for me to like hypothetically offer a 50k bounty for anyone who got this guy 6 months in jail? strictly hypothetical obv, i mean hypothetically people could pm me if they did it and i could pay them if they proved it b/c he definitely could go to jail if someone got the proof right? hypothetically obv.
btw: i’d assume this is someone inside of aol doing the hacking. B/c the last time the accounts were hacked i had them fixed and made very random passwords/answers, and haven’t used the account in a very long time.” – Poker Player DURRRR asked in the public forum.
nt months, however, It would appear, do to the low amount requested by the scammer, he didn’t know just who’s AIM he had control over.
This incident is one of several instant messenger scam attempts targeting online poker players over recent months, and as far back as a year ago when Andy Bloch’s AIM account was hacked.
“Someone got control over my AOL AIM account last night and went through my buddy list asking people for money. (I’m not sure whether he cracked the password or convinced AOL support that he was me and that he forgot his password.) If you got an AIM from me in the last day or two, or get one from me soon, it’s not me. I’m not sure if I will create a new AIM account since it seems that they are easily hackable.” – Andy Bloch September 2007
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Wow!! Tom that is insane that someone did that. Lucky mike realized the situation and didn’t pay off the money. I would think that if the person were caught he could get jail time for fraud since that is a felony. First offense may get off with nothing though but some fines and a slap on the wrist. This online stuff is pretty scary though. I once had someone hack into my account and steal 2100 from my account. Which is a lot for me that was my whole bankroll and the most I ever had gotten it up to. Good luck to ya in the future Tom. I’m big fan of yours and just noticed this article on the web. Maybe i will see ya sometime on full tilt.