SEGA updates Dreamcast.com for DC's 10th anniversary !

Post by **tdinc-Paul** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:07 pm · Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:07 pm

SEGA updates Dreamcast.com for DC's 10th anniversary !

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Post by tdinc-Paul » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:07 pm

from a posting on digg

It seems that SEGA of Japan just updated Dreamcast.com. By clicking on the banner, you'll be taken to http://www.dreamcast.com/apps/ucp.php where Dreamcast users can register here with a user account for their console's serial number and will get an account @user.dreamcast.com. Seems that SEGA is preparing for the DC's 10th anniversary...

go to http://www.dreamcast.com/

Post by **d123456** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:22 pm · Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:22 pm

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Post by d123456 » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:22 pm

Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended.

Tell me more, what is happening?

EDIT: check out this: http://kotaku.com/365502/sega-asks-do-y ... -dreamcast
and the links featured within.

I think it is a hoax. this is too un-Sega like and also too un-Japanese like to do something like this. I'm no expert.

Post by **tdinc-Paul** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:45 pm · Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:45 pm

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Post by tdinc-Paul » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:45 pm

I dont think its a hoax. legit SEGA site. I will register once the servers get back on line. Is SEGA thinking again?

we can only hope something special.

Post by **vlame** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:08 pm · Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:08 pm

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Post by vlame » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:08 pm

d123456 wrote:Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended.

serial number jacking for what?

^^ My Available List ^^
My B/S/T list
I also rent and sell PS2, Wii and XBOX softmod-kits and I collect DVD movies let me know what you have.

Post by **tdinc-Paul** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:13 pm · Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:13 pm

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Post by tdinc-Paul » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:13 pm

This was posted on digg sadly it does look like the site is Fake. until SEGA announces something official. its a no go

Sadly it looks like a scam:
From the forums of http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t= ...
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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. ... 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.