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Microsoft said it has intervened to restore the Xbox Live account of a customer hit by an overseas phishing scam, and refunded all unauthorized charges the scammers were able to make as her complaint got lost in customer support and was never properly locked down. More »
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World of Warcraft scams and scam artists are very real. You got to watch out, you got to be careful. Here are five ways you, the player, can protect yourself. More »
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Our first instinct? Let this one go. If you're dumb enough to fall for a phishing scam, you deserve what you get. But then, following further consideration, we changed our minds. Because that would be mean, and we're only occasionally mean, not constantly mean. So be warned: if you get a friends message on Xbox Live - like the one above - telling you to go to loginbox to collect free MS points, don't. Because you won't. More »
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We really hope you didn't bite when "Sega" asked if you still owned a Dreamcast, promising you a snazzy @dreamcast.com e-mail address in return. It might not have been worth it, as the Mainichi Shimbun is reporting that Sega has called the Dreamcast.com web site nothing but a "bogus" domain squatter, saying that whomever is currently using the site is using Sega's trademarks and logos without permission. At best, its just a fan site collecting Dreamcast serial numbers for an exhaustive database, but at worst it may be a phishing scam built on the foundation of nostalgia for September 9, 1999. More »
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Confused? Heck, I'm confused, and I wrote this. Kotakuite Erzengel spotted a NES emulator in a Mexican shopping mall that looks an Xbox 360. He writes:
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Yes, I mean that literally. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=219081&view=rss&microfeed=true Joel Johnson posts over on GameLife that there's a PayPal Lik-Sang scam making the circuit among people who pre-ordered the Playstation 3 through them. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=211011&view=rss&microfeed=true I spoke with branding company Igor International yesterday about Nintendo's choice of Wii as the new name for their next-gen console. More »
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It's good to see just how effective the ESA is at cracking down on letting people getting into E3. This is why the show is getting so out of hand, it's so cluttered with fanboys, boothbabes and "celebreties" no one can get any work done. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=163166&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's one that actually is put together rather well. Auction ended today, and product sold for $405. The seller's name is 21joker21. Everything looks to be in working order, save for this line at the end: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=141959&view=rss&microfeed=true Kotakuite Besk One sent this turd an email, asking about his ethics and if he'd at least print that scam-o-rific 360 bundle on photo paper. Buttmunch had the nerve to reply, saying, "Well, I could do glossy or regular paper." More »
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By box, I mean "box." You get the actual box. That's it. More »
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Woah. This auction ends in three hours. Read the following from the site. Read it carefully. More »
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I was pretty psyched when I read that Dragon s Lair and Space Ace were coming to the Xbox 360. And then I read the fine print. It turns out the games aren t going to be showing up on Xbox Live Arcade or even as an Xbox 360 disc, no. Digital Leisure is just trying to convince 360 owners to buy their collection of DVD compatible games. Kinda crappy if you ask me. More »
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