PPP spoof mail??

blahblah06

Look what i just got


From : Paddy Power Support <paddypower@mailnj.custhelp.com>
Reply-To : "Paddy Power Support" <paddypower@mailnj.custhelp.com>
Sent : Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:12 PM
To : me@me
Subject : Update Contact Information

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Paddy Power Help Centre Response
A sign in has been created for you with the following email address and security word:

Email address: me@me
Security word: ACIGfg8x


We encourage you to sign in to the Help Centre and change your security word, by clicking here.

hotspur

Looks like a "phising" mail, the purpose of these these fraud mails is to get people's details of accounts and passwords, usually bank accounts, if you were to log into the supposed help centre of Paddy Power (which I presume they have a fake link for) and change the details then they would have the details of your real Paddy Power account. Don't have anything to do with the mail including clicking on anything within the mail. No Internet poker site will ever send you a mail like this or ever ask you for account details by email or anything like that. I get them all the time supposedly from Banks I don't have an account with but I've never seen it from a poker site before.
On this topic, have people on this forum noticed a lot of phising mails to their email address over the past few months? Maybe to the mail address they used to sign up to an online site (not ppp)? I have a suspicion.

Rodge

I get them in my work email all the time but I have yet to get one in the email address that I set up for poker accounts. I have only used that email address for poker so it will be interesting if I do get any to it.

roryc

Anyone else get a christmas card and deck of cards posted out to their house this morning?

PPP-Pit Boss

blahblah06 wrote:

Look what i just got


From : Paddy Power Support <paddypower@mailnj.custhelp.com>
Reply-To : "Paddy Power Support" <paddypower@mailnj.custhelp.com>
Sent : Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:12 PM
To : me@me
Subject : Update Contact Information

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Paddy Power Help Centre Response
A sign in has been created for you with the following email address and security word:

Email address: me@me
Security word: ACIGfg8x


We encourage you to sign in to the Help Centre and change your security word, by clicking here.

Thank you for flagging this! Would you mind sending the original to me. nnewman@paddypower.com so I may try to find the originator and decapitate?
Please all ignore this if you get it (obviously)
grrrrrrrrrrrrr

kinaldo

roryc wrote:

Anyone else get a christmas card and deck of cards posted out to their house this morning?

probably just u after the word got around you'd quit online poker

Edit: oh wait you're right i got one too.. can't say much for the quality but it's the thought that counts

blahblah06

Thanks a million PPP i hope you get them

Happy Crimbo to all at ppp

frodi

roryc wrote:

Anyone else get a christmas card and deck of cards posted out to their house this morning?

Yep I got one, Missus isn't too pleased though, thinks I spend too much time online playing poker.............................................................................................................




I don't, honest!

PPP-Pit Boss

kinaldo wrote:

Edit: oh wait you're right i got one too.. can't say much for the quality but it's the thought that counts

Bah Humbug :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

bohsman

spamming our postboxes now aswell

blahblah06

well kinaldo pass it this way mate i didnt get anything. boohoo LOL

frodi

PPP-Pit Boss wrote:

Bah Humbug :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Don't feel hurt, I appreciated it even though I'm not christian.
Another pack of cards never goes to waste.

And no I won't use them as coasters!

kincsem

roryc wrote:

Anyone else get a christmas card and deck of cards posted out to their house this morning?

Sure did.

One year I got cards from three gambling companies. I must be cutting back without realising it.:o

My 6-year-old nephew was showing me card tricks today. I'm going to go heads-up against him on St Stephens day for all his money. I have to end this losing run somehow. Are you ready Gavan?

PPP-Pit Boss

Hi all. A quick update for you. This mail is not a spoof it is a legitimate mail from our help centre. When in sports book homepage if you click on HELP and sign up there this enables comms from our help centre.
However many thanks for bringing it to my attention. If you ever receive anything else slightly suspect with our name on it please let me know.

bohsman

The spoof emailers have obviously hacked ppppitbosses boards account.

I didnt get the christmas deck so it seems to have to do with your rake paid over the last two months.

Lafortezza

I know PPP-Pit Boss has cleared up the origins of the poster's email but I still wouldn't trust any email that didn't come from @paddypowerpoker.com or @partypoker.com or wherever. I don't know why the PPP cust service wouldn't have this. You can't be too careful when it comes to online money, be it poker sites, online banking or whatever.

Amaru

You can't really even trust mails that come from the domain they claim they're sent from. You can set your outgoing mail address to anything you want, so if i wanted to send a mail from bill.gates@microsoft.com, i could, and then just set the reply path to something different. Generally i don't trust ANY mails to do with finances, and if there is something to be done, i'll go through the proper site to do it, not some link in an email.

PPP-Pit Boss

lafortezza wrote:

I know PPP-Pit Boss has cleared up the origins of the poster's email but I still wouldn't trust any email that didn't come from @paddypowerpoker.com or @partypoker.com or wherever. I don't know why the PPP cust service wouldn't have this. You can't be too careful when it comes to online money, be it poker sites, online banking or whatever.

100% in agreement with the trusting factor. The mail in question was achieved by the customers in question signing up to paddy power sportsbook help centre not paddy power poker which is why only they got it and why it did not say PPP (it was not from our department).
If you ever see anything you dont recognise however be really careful because there are spoofs around. VC recently had a VC-POKER BONUS site attempting to get customers to log in using user name and pass which they shut down.

PPP-Pit Boss

blahblah06 wrote:

well kinaldo pass it this way mate i didnt get anything. boohoo LOL

FYI customers who did not receive this did so as they marked their accounts as non-contactable thusly we do not send out general mails... or pressies

Fatboydim

PPP-Pit Boss wrote:

FYI customers who did not receive this did so as they marked their accounts as non-contactable thusly we do not send out general mails... or pressies

So that's why I never got a Chrissie Card or pressie...