Sega Updates Dreamcast.com for 10th Anniversary UPDATE: Scam :(

[it5five]

Saw this on Digg. I am excited to see what it is. If you still own a Dreamcast, you can register the serial number on the website to create an account. I don't know if anyone knows what Sega has planned yet, but hopefully it is awesome. Right now the service is down due to the large amount of people registering, but as soon as it's back online I'm going to register mine.

Here is the Digg link for those interested

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the link directly to the website:

http://www.dreamcast.com/

Yes, it is Japanese, but all you need to do is click the "Do You Still Own a Dreamcast?" Like I said, as of this posting, the service is down, but keep an eye on it.

EDIT: I kept reading Digg comments, and it seems like some people think this may be a scam. So, I guess nobody should register anything until we find out what is actually going on. What a disappointment.

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.

 

[MRU]

Sweet... time to get my dreamcast out of the closet