Re: Is this $1K bonus email from empire genuine or phishing?
 

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Anyone have any idea how they were selected for this? Maybe we could figure it out if people were willing to put what levels they play and approx. how many hands/month they play on Empire.

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Yeah, anyone?

I play 30,000 3/6 hands a month at Empire alone, and didn't get the e-mail.

Perhaps I'm too loyal.

Only 120 points away from the Royal Flush Club, so that's cool I guess... but still.

A response from Empire
 

I tried to join the special promotion and could not. When I entered my information, the automated replay was that I was not eligible. I have been a VIP Club member for over a year now. So, I wrote an email to VIP services at Empire asking if I was eligible and if not Why. This is the "INFORMATIVE" response I received.

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Dear XXXXX,

Thank you for contacting customer support.

Our exclusive new promotion was designed by our Marketing Team, whereby particular players have been selected for a promotional trial.

We have different promotions for different players and this is decided by our marketing team after taking into consideration certain criteria.

I would like to assure you that we will keep on trying to satisfy our player’s needs by offering new and exciting promotions in the near future that will ensure the time at Empire Poker is an entertaining and thrilling experience.

If you have any more concerns or suggestions please feel free to contact us.

Best regards,

Samantha
Empire Poker
VIP Players Club
Customer Support Team
www.ep.com


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Re: Is this $1K bonus email from empire genuine or phishing?
 

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Did a whois lookup on both sites, and both www.ep.com and www.epvip.com have the same information, FWIW.

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The risk is that some emails contain URLs that use non-standard characters that look like real characters. So www.epvip.com and www.epvip.com might look like they go to the same place, but in fact don't. However, I believe firefox now detects this and mangles bad domain names when you enter them into the browser so its obvious you aren't on the right site.

Re: Is this $1K bonus email from empire genuine or phishing?
 

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I play 30,000 3/6 hands a month at Empire alone, and didn't get the e-mail.


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30,000 per month? How long have you been doing this?

Re: Is this $1K bonus email from empire genuine or phishing?
 

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I play 30,000 3/6 hands a month at Empire alone, and didn't get the e-mail.


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30,000 per month? How long have you been doing this?

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Since forever.

Actually, since around March/April.

Not getting included in this promotion is beginning to harsh my gig, unless it would've encroached upon my rakeback income.

Probably best to just forget about it [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]