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I was chatting with a guy on the prima network last week and he told me that he could get me a 300% deposit bonus at party poker. He claimed to be an affiliate and told me about the details via AIM. Long story short, I deposited money into the account and within hours could no longer access the account and when I contacted party they informed me that the money was no longer there. I googled several of the screen names who contacted me during the debacle (who i am now pretty sure that they are all the same person) and found several posts about scams including this one which I believe is exactly what happened to me: Would the following scenario be possible on Party Poker? 1) Affiliate creates account on party poker. 2) Player logs on to that account and changes the password. 3) Player deposits money. 4) Affiliate has been logged onto the same account while the password was being changed and are still logged on. 4) Affiliate withdraws the money deposited by the player and takes off with it. Any suggestion on handling this besides never trusting anyone ever again?

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I was chatting with a guy on the prima network last week and he told me that he could get me a 300% deposit bonus at party poker. He claimed to be an affiliate and told me about the details via AIM. Long story short, I deposited money into the account and within hours could no longer access the account and when I contacted party they informed me that the money was no longer there. I googled several of the screen names who contacted me during the debacle (who i am now pretty sure that they are all the same person) and found several posts about scams including this one which I believe is exactly what happened to me: Would the following scenario be possible on Party Poker? 1) Affiliate creates account on party poker. 2) Player logs on to that account and changes the password. 3) Player deposits money. 4) Affiliate has been logged onto the same account while the password was being changed and are still logged on. 4) Affiliate withdraws the money deposited by the player and takes off with it. Any suggestion on handling this besides never trusting anyone ever again?
U got screwd.Never do that again.Thats all you can do, technically PP never saw the cash, and legal action wont go very far in this case
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Yuck.If what you suspect is true, this person may not be an affiliate. An affiliate can be paid a referral fee when people sign up using their download link or bonus code. As a real affiliate, I'd much rather have a referral bonus than steal someone's money.You should be contacting Party ASAP because it is possible they can stop the cash from moving out. They want deposited cash to be used during gameplay.Also Party should be able to tell you where the money went. Was it chip-dumped in a heads-up game? Was it moved using Party's money transfer? Or was it cashed out and what method was used?Several of these methods are "suspicious" to Party and they may have already slowed down/stopped the cahout.Also, you may also have immediate recourse depending on how you deposited. If you used a credit card, you may dispute the charge.But you need to be contacting Party urgently. Use alerts@partypoker.com====Part of the lesson here is that anytime someone suggests you do something a bit suspicious -- don't do it.If someone suggests you deposit money in an already-created account, don't do it. If someone wants to trade you $xx on PartyPoker for $xx on PokerStars and you don't know the person, don't do it.Good luck in your pursuit.

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Party' support has been very unhelpful in this matter. Besides the fact that they are very hard to understand b/c of outsourcing, they are very unwilling to give me much info. or admit that people are performing scams with their software. They made me sound like the one at fault and must have asked me 500 times if I gave out my password or share my computer. Does anyone know a number where I can reach someone in the states that works for party and is not a programmed customer sercive rep?

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