Comments on: Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam

By: Mavi

Mavi — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:36:45 +0000

Think we all sensed this was a scam in the first place…

By: frenchguy

frenchguy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:21:15 +0000

A VPN by a PPTP tunnel, it exist, and for free! …but in french only ;) peer2me.com

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:37:55 +0000

proactive attitude- EuGene. Lets all sustain the same spirit and bring down the other scammers predating the web.

By: EuGene

EuGene — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:22:10 +0000

Cheated by that VPN service, so I reported to the "http://www.namecheaphosting.com"who host that client's VPN website, and now look …Suspended :)

Everyone give a big thanks to namecheaphosting :D

> To: xxxxxxx@hotmail.com
> Subject: [#167872]: Cheating website
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:21:12 +0000
> CC:
> From: abuse@namecheaphosting.com
>
> Hello,
>
> We've suspended this account.
>
> Regards,
> xxxxxxxxx
> Support team
> NameCheap Hosting
>
> Ticket Details
> ===================
> Ticket ID: 167872
> Department: Hosting — Legal and Abuse
> Priority: Critical

By: Logic « i found this thing next to the garbage bin…

Logic « i found this thing next to the garbage bin… — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:42:31 +0000

[...] Posted in Uncategorized Pay 2 Peer Service [...]

By: VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product | Voip Blog

VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product | Voip Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:31:42 +0000

[...] offering customers a one time $29 payment for a lifetime of anonymous VPN-based BitTorrent access. Torrent Freak has posted a follow up on their original piece, confirming that the outfit is in fact a scam. [...]

By: Not a scam!

Not a scam! — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:19:49 +0000

I can sell a link to the software for 40$ – Thats 10$ then our competitor! Act now and I will give, for free, a link to a search-engine with lots of features!

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:37:11 +0000

I find you funny you daft twat – way to try to act like you have any idea of what you're talking about.

To tear your stupidness apart:

1. You can only proxy your tracker connection through Tor for regular (ie. not Tor Hidden Services) trackers – every client you upload or download to and from sees your real IP address. As pointed out, Tor is also slow and unreliable – perhaps using it as a proxy for the tracker would work but I doubt it would be reliable – and it would be pointless as you may as well just use a faster regular proxy to hide your location from the tracker.

2. For trackers running on the Tor network (or I2P or any other anonymous network) there is little content. Hardly anything in fact. And the speed is shocking – already Tor usually runs slower than dialup if you count the enormous wait time.

3. You're ruining the Tor network by downloading large files you dumb sh*t: this explains it http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119

Man your a retard.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:53:24 +0000

Looks like their site got yanked finally by the host! One down, way too many more to go.

By: ideaflashed

ideaflashed — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:41:13 +0000

Hi Enigmax,
I spoke to Anchor Free and subsequently mailed the details for clarification. Below is the transcript of the e-mail correspondence substantiating your inference of VPN4LIFE is a scam.

I would appreciate if you could add this to you earlier post.
ravi

Subject: Hotspot shield scam
From: "Eugene Malobrodsky" <eugene@anchorfree.com>
Date: Thu, January 8, 2009 1:51 am
To: ravishankar@ideaflashed.com
Priority: Normal
Mailer: Microsoft-Entourage/12.15.0.081119
Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | View Message details | This is Spam

Ravishankar,

I would like to let you know that VPN4LIFE is a scam. They are reselling our
product without our knowledge. Our legal and PR are in the process of taking
care of this. Please release to the community the following statement.

"We want to make it very clear that AnchorFree and Hotspot Shield are in no
way affiliated with VPN4Life. We are saddened to learn that people have
fallen prey to the site's false offers, and urge anyone who has been mislead
to purchase our service through the site to file a complaint with PayPal for
a full refund. The real Hotspot Shield is 100% free and can be instantly
downloaded at:http://www.hotspotshield.com."

We would like to thank you for your dedication and helping us in hard
situations.

Regards,

AnchorFree Management

—–Original Message—–
From: Ravishankar Ganesan [mailto:ravishankar@ideaflashed.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:51 AM
To: Cecelia Marsh
Subject: Clarification.
Importance: High

Hi Cecelia
Subsequent to our tel conversation, Given below is the hyper link which
states that your product "HOTSPOT SHIELD" is being misused by scammers.

Kindly verify the article and let me know by way of e-mail about the
authenticity of the article.

http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-bittorrent-serv…
090106/
You can view my profile and contact details at my website
http://www.ideaflashed.com.

Your feedback would help me in getting across the truth to the community
and take further action against the scammers based on your feedback.

Any technical specifications substantiating your stance would be highly
appreciated.

regards
ravi

By: ideaflashed

ideaflashed — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:39:17 +0000

Hi Enigmax,
I spoke to Anchor Free and subsequently mailed the details for clarification. Below is the transcript of the e-mail correspondence substantiating your inference of VPN4LIFE is a scam.

I would appreciate if you could added this to you earlier post.
ravi

Subject: Hotspot shield scam
From: "Eugene Malobrodsky"
Date: Thu, January 8, 2009 1:51 am
To: ravishankar@ideaflashed.com
Priority: Normal
Mailer: Microsoft-Entourage/12.15.0.081119
Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | View Message details | This is Spam

Ravishankar,

We would like to thank you for your dedication and helping us in hard
situations.

Regards,

AnchorFree Management

—–Original Message—–
From: Ravishankar Ganesan [mailto:ravishankar@ideaflashed.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:51 AM
To: Cecelia Marsh
Subject: Clarification.
Importance: High

Hi Cecelia
Subsequent to our tel conversation, Given below is the hyper link which
states that your product "HOTSPOT SHIELD" is being misused by scammers.

Kindly verify the article and let me know by way of e-mail about the
authenticity of the article.

http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-bittorrent-serv…
090106/
You can view my profile and contact details at my website
http://www.ideaflashed.com.

Your feedback would help me in getting across the truth to the community
and take further action against the scammers based on your feedback.

Any technical specifications substantiating your stance would be highly
appreciated.

regards
ravi

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:24:35 +0000

I found that with Firefox and Adblock plus I can use it without having to actually view any ads, I use it to view hulu.com from outside the states. Sometimes it doesn't offer enough bandwidth to stream though.

By: connexion

connexion — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:07:23 +0000

hot 10 gig "CONNEXION"

By: Dia

Dia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:25:26 +0000

Using PayPal when scamming people isn't exactly smart. It's so easy to get your money back as a buyer.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:04:00 +0000

i was slightly curious and hit the PayPal button a couple of days ago. seems like PayPal had caught on before the site realized people got wise.

By: Meee

Meee — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:06:54 +0000

01/07 8pm MST: Still says 17 places left

By: TPile » Blog Archive » VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:53:22 +0000

By: 0wn3d

0wn3d — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:54:04 +0000

lol.

that is all.

By: nerdd.net | news and opinion

nerdd.net | news and opinion — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:36:29 +0000

Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam | nerdd.net…

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:16:53 +0000

In other words, Torrentfreak has fucked you over!

By: Gss

Gss — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:48:39 +0000

Tor rocks? Well, how fast is your download speed on Tor and is it easily configurable. I've heard so much about TOR but about 2 yrs ago when I tried to use it, I found it to be damn near impossible to understand how to use. And I gave up once I heard you only get like 3 kb/s download speed.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:17:26 +0000

LOL Ahem http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/anchorfree.comit's a bit dodgy too

By: sillythissillythat

sillythissillythat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:48:52 +0000

I actually find it rather funny that some pirates would foolishly pay for an already free product, in order to anonymize themselves to get copyrighted/fee based content for free. For all of those who don't already know "TOR" rocks, google it.

By: VPN4Life, un servicio que ocultaba la IP para usar en los P2P resulta que es una estafa

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:47:55 +0000

[...] VPN4Life, un servicio que ocultaba la IP para usar en los P2P resulta que es una estafatorrentfreak.com/anonymous-bittorrent-service-vpn4life-is-a-… por oconnels hace pocos segundos [...]

By: El servicio de uso anónimo Bittorrent VPN4Life es una estafa » SoftwareZone : Blog sobre Software con tutoriales de ayuda y noticias

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:39:17 +0000

[...] Fuente | Torrentfreak [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:49:16 +0000

Anchorfree is a heavy adware thing too, not too nice either.

By: nicci

nicci — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:34:32 +0000

blacklogic.com also offer vpn and is ALSO A SCAM i subscribed and its been 2 weeks and i have yet to get a response to my countless emails they just took my money

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:10:46 +0000

Er… what are you talking about?

By: Unidentified

Unidentified — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:18:24 +0000

Lol, yeah, maybe some retarded bastards trying for easy money like roze said and hell, i thought they won for a second there. Atleast paypal is good enough to get the money back. hehe.

By: bryanskrantz

bryanskrantz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:05:50 +0000

here's a perfect opportunity to do a DOS attack…. if anybody knows how to do it….

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:21:15 +0000

If you would notice, TorrentFreak never advertised VPN4Life. Notice that coverage is not necessarily advertisement.

By: InterNats

InterNats — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:43:32 +0000

No, it is your fault for being able to read.

Seriously don't start the fucking blame game.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:31:02 +0000

Has anyone reported said fraud to their host? and why do my comments keep dissapearing?

By: jack

jack — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:26:30 +0000

Has anyone reported said fraud to their host?
Name Server: NS109.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS9.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM

achhk, sorry folks. I posted this in the prison post. I meant to put it here.
At any rate, flagrant ignorance is pretty easy to deal with.

By: bryanskrantz

bryanskrantz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:47:18 +0000

since it is a scam and PayPal already knows it there's no hassle for a refund. I'll bet it'll be a month before PayPal threatens to take the site down

By: bryanskrantz

bryanskrantz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:31 +0000

EEEEPPPPPPIIIIICCCCCC FFFFAAAAIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL hahahahahaha

By: James101

James101 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:37:16 +0000

It was irresponsible for TorrentFreak to report on this in the first place. It was OBVIOUSLY dodgy, and despite your warnings, you must have known that people would sign up to it. People that became aware of it because of the story on your website.

The scammers must be delighted that they've got so much attention from gullible websites.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:58 +0000

What
Ive just read the article here onm torrentfreak.com
and this is really fucked up.
These fuckers are actually making money by selling a product that is free
Shit if only i knew how to hack i would defaced there website
all the people wgo got fucked should open a website collect money from everyone and pay hackers
to fuck those little scammers.

By: bt

bt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:14:12 +0000

“Nevertheless, since the offer was so cheap, some people decided to take the chance.”

Blaming the readers for a service you advertised? How about the VPN service that was showing user IPs? How much do you get paid for these obvious adverts?

By: pink panther

pink panther — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:52:24 +0000

This is not practicable in the real world, even if you get past this being a single point of failure and a single choke point.

With a single point of contact, that’s a big, juicy target for the MPAA/RIAA to sue out of existence, if this is widely used for file sharing.

Plus, it’s a single place to serve subpoenas.

Probably better off being a scam than a trap.

By: r0ck

r0ck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:26:48 +0000

No shit sherlock … duh.

By: stupid

stupid — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:50:27 +0000

well….. duh

By: Mr.Afghanistan

Mr.Afghanistan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:34:20 +0000

I knew it was scam when i reviewed torrentfreak first article ! lol

By: Roze

Roze — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:08:32 +0000

That makes one wonder what amount of effort they spent on this scam in the first place. Perhaps they thought that it was easy money or something.

By: InterNats

InterNats — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:54:48 +0000

Dear Dumbshit,

The staff here warned people about it, they themselves did not sign up. Learn to fucking read.

-The Internet

By: fdefault.com

fdefault.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:52:16 +0000

ITT: TorrentFreak.com fails

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:37:18 +0000

Surely you already knew that, 'NubCakes'? After all, you only posted that link to a video of a man being killed by altering the link's title to a torrent-related subject.

Netscum…

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:31:01 +0000

They could have at the very least made a new GUI for it, but the exact same software that you can get for free, thats low.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:13 +0000

I didn't bother to even visit the site after i read the first article on this. Nice to see that the staff at TorrentFreak are easily scammed.

By: Roze

Roze — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:08:04 +0000

At least the complaint to paypal is there.