The know-it-alls can laugh all they want but I suspect most people who share torrents would look at an email like this and believe the worse. It is well written without the usual grammatical errors or strange symbols that your typical spam scams have. It lists a number of well known sites that most of us visit. Who isn’t going to open the “evidence” to see exactly what they have on you?

Thanks again to TorrentFreak for keeping up with the news that matters.

It is too polite! If MD did send a letter, they would not warn you off from the sites… they would threaten to sue you, your family and everyone you have ever spoken too (and all that with NO evidence!)

And where was Demonoid on the list?

Bah ;0)

One main argument of the anti torrenting community is “Torrenting’ is unsafe.

This is how they can justifiy you MUST by the DVD.

Simple enough.

Any tech savvy user sees that, A) Hey or she has fully updated NOD32, and B) GMAIL spam filter.

need I say more? For all you kiddies who infect yourself via bittorrent, good riddance. Keygens ALWAYS have viruses, and 419 letters will ALWAYS take many forms.

Hello, I am from Nigeria ,I am rich, please help me.

Jeffery
http://www.FireMe.To/udi

I am alluding to the simple fact that those who are engaging in multi-faceted social engineering appear to be incapable of adopting a consistently believeable standard of language.

If you analyse the above hoax carefully, it should be obvious to most people that certain grammatical errors exist, which serve as warning beacons for anyone paying attention.

A prime example of this would be the use of the verb ‘can’. In a formal document, one would expect it to say ‘may’. Additionally, persons are, according to my grammar reference, prosecuted UNDER a specific bye-law or statue, not BY. Wrong preposition, if I am not mistaken.

Just my two cents of this, but Trojan Horse authors are also particularly guilty (at times) of using flawed tactics (abbreviations, non-formal register again) to convince the uninformed to download the program’s payload under the pretence of ridding their machine of a virus.

Ever seen files on emule, where the author has padded an obvious Trojan Horse with a file called cracked.nfo? This is obviously a trick to try and fool people who can recognise these malicious programs by their size (you get a feeling after a while).

Read Mitnick’s book and you’ll see how important the people factor is in any miscreant’s activities.

Why do these people keep coming out with these scams? Simple; there will always be someone who falls for them. Sad but true.

IMS, SMS, phone instead of email? Very funny. Whoever said that doesn’t know shit about others’ requirements or the different properties of these communication technologies. Ever heard of asynchronous communication or encryption? Any idea what it might be good for? No? Thought so.

Mininova doesn’t use anyone’s tracker in particular. You can upload a torrent to it from any tracker.

Use a simple email for site registration and all that but never bother using email to contact people or send/recieve emails from people.
Use a instant messaging service, or send a SMS, or make a phone call.

Anything is better then email, dont use it!

Disagree.

I’ve always said that the anti-pirate’s work is more like a con trick than a legal defense. This could ultimately show that in the end there is no difference between the two.

CJ
http://www.eZee.se

1) They get to send malware to “pirates,” which IIRC was on meevee’s wishlist of things to do. 2) If people automatically delete crap purporting to be from the MAFIAA, that means they have a better chance of getting people who won’t know they’re being sued and can’t defend themselves.

Probably the funniest bit is there ain’t an IP address on da letter! WTF? Um… does an IP ever count as evidence? Coz my shitty broadband modem keeps booting me offline every hour or so (it’s about to die, ya see…) and renews with a different IP addy. RIAA/MPAA Pricks.

Wait, MPAA = Megacorporate Pricks (up yer) Arse Association? Naaaww..

Oh, and hoooray! I’m last! until someone else posts a message…

As the use of torrents and the internet grows with the general public you will also get your fair share of idiots.

Not to call everyone who is new to torrents an idiot, but people will still click the attachment EVEN though they might not have heard of half of the sites listed.

First Myspace, then Facebook, icanhascancer etc. Now they move from Limewire to torrents.

It’s good and bad news for the normal public tracker user, good because you will possibly have more content but definitely more peers.

Bad because certain aspects of torrenting will need to be dumbed down for the general populace to understand.

“Fort porward what? LoooL I dun no wut im dOiNg LOL FTW I just want to download lol not s33d. ROFLAIDS.”

Public torrent sites are great for idiots, ratio doesn’t have to be maintained and is a good learning ground for those who want to stick at it and end up on the private sites.

- zanfr
http://www.kruhm.org

and btw my comment is so you are thirth… Your response is awaiting moderation. :S

You know just like the real ones, but the money goes to gready little … wait that doesn’t differenciate it at all. :D

fuck anti-piracy groups and those assholes who upload infected files for the MONEY!! Fuck you spammers

Few screenshots of fake/infected uploads:

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5905/fake4yp9.png
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/6097/fake9zu0.png
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8058/infected2bd6.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7478/infected4iu2.jpg
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/6999/infected5bt0.jpg
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/5977/infected7gg2.jpg