Still Own a Dreamcast?

[Nester the Lark]

I don't know if this belongs in the Third Party forum or the NinDB general forum, or if it doesn't belong anywhere, but I thought this was interesting enough to pass along.

According to Kotaku, SegaNerds noticed that dreamcast.com is asking people if they still own a Dreamcast. It leads to a form where you can input your DC's serial number and some other info, and it seems to lead to the creation of a [serial number]@users.dreamcast.com e-mail account. No one seems to know exactly what the deal is yet.

I hope it's not a scam because I just signed up. Perhaps it's a preparation for a 10th anniversary celebration?

[TV Eye]

Yeah, I'll sign up. I still own my Dreamcast, still plugged in too ;D

[missingno.is back?]

I still got mine. In fact I bought it about three years ago only.

[kirbychu]

I tried signing up, but apparently they've suspended the service because they've been flooded with account requests.

[Nester the Lark]

^ If they were trying to find out how many people still own Dreamcasts, I guess this answers their question. ;D

[Fryguy64]

I'm afraid I traded mine in years ago for a bunch of Gamecube games. Which were then stolen in the Great Videogame Heist!

[Wildcat]

Whoa, there fellas - read this bit from a buddy at the other forum I go to:

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 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.
www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbis..._com_trace.htm for a report from 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 SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM 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."

Dunno. I've got a DC email address now. But eh, who knows.

Some people suck.

[TV Eye]

[Nester the Lark]

Eh, that's what I was afraid of. I had no intention of using that e-mail address anyway. I also have no idea what use they could get from knowing my DC serial number.

As for my regular e-mail address, it has pretty good spam protection, so I'm not too worried.

Anyway, my sincere apologies for posting this subject.

[Wildcat]

Eh, don't fret it, my friend. It happens. Fooled more than just us. The other board I frequent is loaded with Sega fanatics - they were tricked, too. It's all good. ^_^