Scam??? Whaddya think???

[hhughes]

Just got this email:

Dear Player,



Santa has come early to Ace Club Casino!

This December we wanted to give you a unique present for Christmas!

A reward from us to you!! To show our appreciation for keeping an active Ace Club Casino Account.

We are thankful for your loyalty, and that is why we are sharing the good fortune around this festive period!

We take great delight in treating you to something extra special this Christmas:

So please reply to this email with your username and you'll get $500 FREE to your player account.



Regards,

Ace Club Marketing team

Anyone else get this? Havent gone to the site yet, am on my way now...will report later.

Scam no doubt

[hhughes]

Well I just went to Ace Club, and talked to one of the fine CS reps ( /images/graemlins/tongue.gif )

He assured me that this was NOT a scam, and to forward the email to them and that they would send it to the marketing dept.

Will report when I receive any reply....

[hhughes]

A REALLY quick response, but its the typical "dont call us, we'll call you" reply:

Dear Timothy,

Thank you for contacting AceClub Casino Customer Care.

We have forwarded the email to our marketing team and they are looking into it. It will take 24 to 48 hours for us to get the update. Once we receive the email we will get back to you.

Brunda
AceClub Customer Care
Tel: +350 43001 (International Charges Apply)
US and Canada: +1 (866) 232-6004 (Toll Free)
UK only: +44 (800) 279-1031 (Toll Free)
http://www.AceClub.com

I expect this to be a red herring...but thought Id post to let folks know...

[kskillz]

DOH! I got this email this morning too. I actually did reply to it with my username.

Well, if it is a scam, I doubt someone can do too much with my username, I didn't send my passwd or anything.

I'll respond with any results after a couple days.

I also got this.

[shakingspear]

I got this, too. This is the first time I've received what seems like a dubious email from a casino. I was excited at first, and then realized there weren't any terms and conditions. Looked to see if anyone else got it, and here I am.

Hope it's good. Looking forward to the response you get from CS.

[PygmyHero]

I got this also. My first thought was that it was a scam because the lack of T&C was disturbing. However, as another poster points out, they only ask for your username, and I'm not sure how much can be done with only that information.

It seems improbable that someone running a scam got ahold of a number of email addresses that all have AceClub accounts (I assume we all have one since no one has said otherwise).

I was going to try to get someone on live chat later today and will post any answer I get in this thread.

looks like scan to me.

From: "marketing@aceclubcasino.com" <aceclub@casino-champs.com>

see the mail header, the email is NOT from aceclubcasino.

[MrMon]

Here's who it is:

[ QUOTE ]
WHOIS information for casino-champs.com:

[whois.enom.com]

Registration Service Provided By: RakePage.com
Contact: nic@rakepage.com

Domain name: casino-champs.com

Administrative Contact:
RakePage.com
NIC Administrator (nic@rakepage.com)
+1.34455262
Fax: +44.34455262
South Gate LW5
Brighton, 45LW6
GB

Technical Contact:
RakePage.com
NIC Administrator (nic@rakepage.com)
+1.34455262
Fax: +44.34455262
South Gate LW5
Brighton, 45LW6
GB

Registrant Contact:
RakePage.com
NIC Administrator (nic@rakepage.com)
+1.34455262
Fax: +44.34455262
South Gate LW5
Brighton, 45LW6
GB

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Creation date: 29 Aug 2005 15:04:15
Expiration date: 29 Aug 2006 15:04:15


[/ QUOTE ]

[BigBluffer]

I got this too. Sent off a quick email to Ace Club support and to marketing. Marketing replied with "This is not ours." So, there ya go.

I too am unsure what someone can do with just a user name, but now we know there's no reason to respond to the email. It's a hoax.

[hhughes]

Anyone get another response from AceClub on this...its been 2 days and havent seen anything from them since this initial reply...

Thanks

[froggy527]

You might want to change your user name. I doubt this
is a problem but some of the crooks on the net have huge
lists of passwords and they can try all of these against
your username.

It probally won't happen but it's always better to be safe
than sorry. If nothing else change your password to
a mix of letters and numbers(no birthdays,address or phone#)

And even though it's a pain change your password every month
or so.