Closed Empire accounts reopened?

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I found nothing on this searching here and at another site so ...

My Empire account was one of those closed by them last May for abusing the bonus system, or some such. Weird, but fine.

But a couple days ago, someone who did not know my account was closed transfered some money to me at Empire. Inconvenient. So I emailed Empire and told them what had happened. The emailed back (the same day(!)) saying

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We see from our records that your account "........" is opened. So, you can login to your account and play.

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I have reinstalled the software and everything seems to be working fine. Is anyone else's account reopened?