Somebody was posing as members of the Chicago Gaming Company office, and requesting funds to be wired to them for payment on games. They are using a cloned proforma invoice requesting ACH to different accounts. These potential scammers are promising MMR, AFM, and MB with prepayment wired directly to them.

These people have copied the signatures of our staff and are using a domain of chicago-gamnig.com. Should you receive an email from this domain, it is not from Chicago Gaming Company.

We have worked hard to correct this today, and this is isolated to a few email addresses.

Chicago Gaming Company only sells our games through AUTHORIZED dealers, and does not sell direct to the community.

Please feel free to reach out to me directly should you have any questions regarding this.

Post last edited 2 years ago: “Additional Information added ”

#2 2 years ago

SGR

steve-o

Pinside member

14y 98,650 664

"Good info to know" BUMP

#3 2 years ago

???

pinlink

Pinside member

Unknown

8y 72,150 2,205

The scammers are getting good. They've really hit the pinball scene hard recently. Seems like every week now there is a new thread "is this fakepinballcompanyscams.com website legit?"

#4 2 years ago

???

greeneye

Pinside member

Neabsco, VA

5y 55,550 324 3 7

"Potential"?

-3

#5 2 years ago

???

nicoy3k

Pinside member

Acton, MA

3y 66,050 3,025 1 14

Put mmr back on the line

Edit: relax ladies the comment was made in jest

#6 2 years ago

LXL

Isochronic_Frost

Saratoga Silverball

7y 221K 9,389 108 1 1

OP
Quoted from CGC-Ryan:
It has come to my attention that specific e-mail addresses within Chicago Gaming Company have been compromised over the weekend.
Somebody was posing as members of the Chicago Gaming Company office, and requesting funds to be wired to them for payment on games. They are using a cloned proforma invoice requesting ACH to different accounts. These potential scammers are promising MMR, AFM, and MB with prepayment wired directly to them.
These people have copied the signatures of our staff and are using a domain of chicago-gamnig.com. Should you receive an email from this domain, it is not from Chicago Gaming Company.
We have worked hard to correct this today, and this is isolated to a few email addresses.
Chicago Gaming Company only sells our games through AUTHORIZED dealers, and does not sell direct to the community.
Please feel free to reach out to me directly should you have any questions regarding this.

Happened at work last year and this year. One account got phished and the VP is a real “I can do everything all by myself” guy so the scammers got access to everything and cloned all our customer lists, POS, accounts, bank info. It was insane. They tried wiring a quarter of a million out of the company and the only thing that saved the company was a two-factor text. Otherwise it would have been bankrupted.

They stayed in it for the long haul and apparently still had access to our domain and spoofed new email addresses and sent out blasts to our customers and infected them.

It’s been a mess and the VP still insists he has it under control lol

#7 2 years ago

???

Mike_J

Pinside member

13y 99,550 5,399 58

Never, ever pay via wire transfer.

#8 2 years ago

LTG

Pinside member

Hopkins, MN

12y 191K 56,940 24 7

Crap.

Sorry to hear.

LTG : (

#9 2 years ago

SDS

whthrs166

Pinside member

Arvada, CO

10y 93,050 4,526 12

Quoted from nicoy3k:
Put mmr back on the line

#10 2 years ago

NIK

nikk

Pinside member

8y 26,900 16 9

happened to me. I asked CG if mmr will be produced again. Got a reply where the scammers tell that there are a few on the line already but you have to make a upfront deposit to reserve one.

#11 2 years ago

CGC

CGC-Ryan

Pinside member

Cicero, IL

5y 44,900 28 11

Quoted from nikk:
happened to me. I asked CG if mmr will be produced again. Got a reply where the scammers tell that there are a few on the line already but you have to make a upfront deposit to reserve one.

I am glad that you did not fall victim to the scam.

#12 2 years ago

KOZ

KozMckPinball

Pinside member

7y 85,300 4,082 3

Watch out if they scam a distributor website/contact info, that could look more legit to take payment. That said, I'm really tired of getting contacted via phone about how my social security is in jeopardy. When did the the IRS start making phone calls?

#13 2 years ago

MOO

snakesnsparklers

Pinside member

9y 92,800 4,828

Quoted from pinlink:
The scammers are getting good. They've really hit the pinball scene hard recently. Seems like every week now there is a new thread "is this fakepinballcompanyscams.com website legit?"

If I was a scammer I'd be focusing on the pinball community too. It's pretty lucrative to target a market that is generally full of wealthy people with money to burn on toys. Too many people with more money than sense = easy pickings.

#14 2 years ago

ROB

transprtr4u

Pinside+ Frequent

Edmonton, AB

10y 130K 8,398 3 1

Scam for sure ... nothing on the line there! Sad when companies have to go through this ! Waste of valuable resources!

#15 2 years ago

LTG

Pinside member

Hopkins, MN

12y 191K 56,940 24 7

Quoted from transprtr4u:
nothing on the line there!

Not entirely true.

#16 2 years ago

STV

Doctor6

Pinside member

Roscoe, IL

15y 116K 4,413 6 58

Quoted from LTG:
Not entirely true.

You're right. Their reputation is on the line if they dont hurry.

#17 2 years ago

???

freeplay3

Pinside+ Addict

Waterford Township, MI

7y 115K 1,632 6

Sucks that the first thing to come out of CGC in months is this.

#18 2 years ago

???

feedthebiscuit

Pinside+ Frequent

5y 49,600 128

Quoted from LTG:
Not entirely true.

Is this another hint? Are you talking about their reputation or their production line? I’m sure no one here will share your secret news. .

#19 2 years ago

LTG

Pinside member

Hopkins, MN

12y 191K 56,940 24 7

Quoted from feedthebiscuit:
Is this another hint?

No hint. Just that they are busy. MMR Royals were last pin as far as I know. They do make video games, cabinets, and playfields.

LTG : )

#20 2 years ago

???

freeplay3

Pinside+ Addict

Waterford Township, MI

7y 115K 1,632 6

Quoted from feedthebiscuit:
Is this another hint? Are you talking about their reputation or their production line? I’m sure no one here will share your secret news. .

It's not much of a secret. Everyone knows what's coming, its the when that we all want to know.

#21 2 years ago

SMB

Concretehardt

Pinside+ Frequent

Eugene, OR

11y 145K 10,075 2 27

Scam alert Bump

#22 2 years ago

MOO

snakesnsparklers

Pinside member

9y 92,800 4,828

Quoted from freeplay3:
It's not much of a secret. Everyone knows what's coming, its the when that we all want to know.

Punchy the Clown remake confirmed. Thank you sir.

#23 2 years ago

SLT

ClassicHornet

Pinside member

16y 72,050 489 40

Bump for scam

3 months later

#24 2 years ago

DOC

Davidus56

Pinside+ Addict

9y 82,300 384 59

Who needs to scam when you have companies like Heighway and Dutch doing it for you.

Reply

Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

Donate to Pinside

Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!

This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/potential-scam-alert-regarding-chicago-gaming-products and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.