[fyodor]

Actually something similar happened to a friend of mine at Empire and he did get his money back. He was at an undergroud poker club and while he was in a live game he let a friend log on to a computer they had there and play with his Empire account in an online tourney. What he never noticed was that when he logged on the default is to save login id and password.

The next night someone else comes into the club, turns on the computer, notices it has Empire software, opens it up, logs into the default account (my friend's) and finds $2000 to play with. The money dissapears in about 15 minutes and I guess just about the entire amount went to the same opponent.

Empire froze the recepient's account, checked the hand histories, asked the recepient for an explanation, none was forthcoming, my friend's money was refunded.

True story. Happy ending. Wasn't me but I know it happened for a fact.