SCAM: Dreamcast.com

[Basile]

I do feel that this isn't legitimate and strongly advise everyone to keep an eye on your mail activity and inbox, report any abuse to [email protected].

Agreed!

[Christuserloeser]

Yeah, that's probably a very good idea.

[BaldMonk]

Dammit... I've decided to change my email pass... Just incase.

[Eviltaco64]

I think I'll pass. I wish it was legitimate though

[dcdood]

i'll do it, *i have one of those non active e-mail accounts so if i don't fully trust a website, there crappy e-mails get sent to a place where i can check them!

i wonder if it is legit? Maybe sega will send us MIL-CD+GD Drives haha *would be nice. my games would work at 5x the speed of my old DC * Never know could be a sign of a DC-2 or US|EU Refurbished Systems! not hoping, but possible (just because it has never happened

[SSUK]

To quote what I just posted on another website:

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EDIT: Okay, It's fake as hell, as we suspected.

I forgot to to the most basics of basics when looking into this, I didn't check if this site was still hosted by SEGA. So I pinged dreamcast.com and lo' and behold http://72.29.74.51/ was the IP I got. It links to a cPanel set up page. I then pinged SEGA.jp and got the IP 210.174.184.7, SEGA.com: 204.155.67.210, Sonic Team: 202.3.142.231. All SEGA sites are no where near the IP range of dreamcast.com. Running a trace on this IP brings us right back to square one with DimeNoc/dizinc.
http://www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbis..._com_trace.htm for a report from http://visualiptrace.visualware.com/
SEGA.com is run from San Francisco under their own, internal servers. SEGA.jp and Sonicteam.com are run from inside Japan, as you'd expect.

So to sum up, it's a site not on ANY of SEGA's servers, it's supposedly a Japanese site running on a shared server in Orlando, emails set out are from a dizinc email address, uses Gmail as a front for a Dreamcast email address, the site poses as an official website (including copyright marks from SEGA). It's fake, don't use it. If you have used it, as a few of you have, hope this comes to nothing.
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Emails sent from dreamcast.com are emails actually sent from a dizinc.com email address, which forwards instantly to DimeNoc. I believe DimeNoc are a hosting company and are actually just the service provider for this scam.

This hit Digg's front page an hour ago, which was plenty of time for the registration page to go down. Looks like the people behind this just missed a literal gold mine of email addresses. But they took the page down, probably after getting a certain number of emails anyway, which I'm sure will get sold on to some Viagra companies. Oh happy days. It was a very believable scam, however. One which even I fell for, let this be a lesson to you all. Don't trust the internet.

[BaldMonk]

I think you mean don't trust dcemu...

[Christuserloeser]

This has NOTHING to do with DCEmu.


- I was the idiot stupid enough to spread this and I acted as an individual. The staff here at DCEmu can't check every newspost, but I should have checked mine...

[pibs]

Christuserloeser don't take it so hard on yourself, it was a difficult scam to spot and it happens to everybody once in a great while.

[BaldMonk]

This has NOTHING to do with DCEmu.


- I was the idiot stupid enough to spread this and I acted as an individual. The staff here at DCEmu can't check every newspost, but I should have checked mine...

I'm assuming you didn't catch the " " 's???