I got Punk'd.

[Aequitas58]

Yahoo was my Neteller email account. My Neteller account details were saved in an email, which was saved in my inbox.

[GeoffM]

Nobody has a right to know. It's your business. Just ensure the money is given back. This is absolutely crazy though. I'm glad you were able to get the money back Lou. This has made me re-think my relatively generic passwords for all of my email, poker and work related.

Edit to add: I have a pretty good idea who it is but will hold judgment.

[bunny]

Was it random that you were the "chosen one" Aeq? Or was he gunning for you because you pissed him off?

[Talking Poker]

Does it matter?

As far as this forum is concerned, I'm respecting Lou's request to take no action for the time being, for obvious reasons.

The lesson to be learned here is that everyone should be more careful - always. Keep your account info and passwords secure and do not share them with anyone, ESPECIALLY electronically. As pshabi realized, if the person you share them with doesn't keep that info secure, you could be screwed.

Also, as for the Yahoo account which was the open window to this whole mess, clearly that is not very secure if all it takes to get in is to know someone's hometown and some other basic information. So I wouldn't consider ANY webmail program secure. If you download your email to your PC, via Outlook/Eudora/whatever, that's much more secure than leaving sensitive information online in a web based account.

[bunny]

Yes. I think it matters. If it was random, then he might have someone else's personal information. Anyone from here, for that matter.

But I'm sure Aeq will let us in, in due time. So I'll stay out of his business.

This most probably has nothing to do with any of this, but I used to have a Yahoo account awhile back. Every once in awhile I'd log in, a window would pop up stating(something along these lines... "We have signed you out from other computer, please try signing in again." The weird thing was that I wasn't signed in, nor was anyone else using my computer. Too Twilight zoney for me, so I got rid of Yahoo.

[PShabi]

Random or not:

He had Lou's birthday, hometown, first and last name and that was all he needed to access yahoo. That's the key here.

[GTDawg]

Haha

Suckers

My password is ****** just try it, motherf*cker!

Good to hear that everything is the way to being fixed...Don't we have any upstanding TP members that could go kick his ass or something?

No I don't advocate the asskicking

[Talking Poker]

Exactly.... so, random or not, if you thin anyone here (or elsewhere) may have that information about you, do yourself a favor and:
1. Don't keep sensitive information in your Yahoo account.
2. Don't link your poker accounts to your Yahoo account.

Tada. Problem solved. Random or not.

[bunny]

Only way to have Lou's last name would be if Lou (Aeq?) was close enough to give it to him. So, my guess is he knows him well. As for the hometown and birthdate that's easily attainable on this forum's profile. Glad I didn't give mine out.

I'm sorry for asking so many questions, I'm going to be one dead cat soon, if I don't shut up.