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Sega Didn't Ask About Your Dreamcast, Some Dirty Rotten Scoundrel Did

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.

While you may already be on the receiving end of some fresh spam, I'd definitely recommend a quick password change to whatever e-mail address you used if you submitted your info.

Sega Calls Attention to Dreamcast Imposter Site [Yahoo Japan]

6:30 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Michael McWhertor
6,167 views, 98 comments

Latest by Billkwando: @Virgil Tibbs: Oh damn, never knew about that. She screwed herself HARD:[en.wikipedia.org] I feel bad for her, but you need to blame California law, not Sega. They only did what the law allowed. She sued them, it cost them money, they recouped more »

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Microsoft Acknowledges Phishing on LIVE

Microsoft has gone on the record and admitted that phishing scams are occurring on Xbox LIVE. Well, technically they are admitting that phishers are trying to get LIVE account information while ignoring that there's more on the line, like personal credit card numbers. Offering reimbursement to customers, they also wanted to make clear:

This was not a failure of software technology. We want to reassure our customers that there has been no security breach of the Xbox LIVE network or of Bungie.net.
Isn't a phishing scam occurring on a closed and thereby safe network precisely framed as a failure of their technology? There's only so much any company can do to protect customers who are willing to re-enter personal info at the drop of a hat, but for all the sacrifices we make on the closed LIVE platform, it's supposed to be an experience free from the everyday burdens of a PC.

Their full statement after the jump.

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1:20 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Mark Wilson
4,664 views, 88 comments

Latest by squidget: @Toasticus: ah interesting. He did sell his old xbox to gamestop sometime ago. Would changing the gamertag name solve the issue? Or is he just SOL? It's funny, MS did not mention any of this (the old xbox being a more »