Comments on: Company Offers Lifetime Anonymous BitTorrent For $50.00

By: Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam | IDTorrent Blog

Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam | IDTorrent Blog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:13:37 +0000

[...] anonymous PPTP service – all for just a one-off payment of $50.00. It seemed to good to be true and in our report we said as much, warning people away from the [...]

By: Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam | InstantIdiocy

Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam | InstantIdiocy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:38:59 +0000

[...] anonymous PPTP service – all for just a one-off payment of $50.00. It seemed to good to be true and in our report we said as much, warning people away from the [...]

By: r0ck

r0ck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:29:37 +0000

Congrats to all the idiots that just sent their address data and such to the media company conducting this scam. Good luck with future scrutiny of your activities. Haha you made my day, people actually bought into this … literally bought … hilarious.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:19:19 +0000

This is basically a scam.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/02/50-for-a-lif...

By: gman

gman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:39:51 +0000

ha ha!! ha ha!!
LMFAO…

By: Scam warning

Scam warning — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:25:16 +0000

Note warning to everyone: vpn4life is confirmed scam, i did not trust them in first place and did not order anything… don't be fooled to order this kind offers they ARE too good to be true.. and that is common recipe for pyramid scams.. If you did get fooled and ordered you can try to get back moneys via paypay charge back or call your credit card company, if you used some kind other service pay then its too bad(and you can say bye bye for moneys)…

By: Seventoes

Seventoes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:43:07 +0000

Oh noes, they have my email address. Now they'll track what I sign up for online. Not like anyone else who wanted to track my activities would have trouble.

By: VPN4Life: servicio que permite utilizar anónimamente las redes P2P

VPN4Life: servicio que permite utilizar anónimamente las redes P2P — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:25:54 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak señala algunos detalles en cuanto al precio del servicio, por ejemplo una conexión de 20 megas preparada para Redes de intercambio P2P cuesta 50 dolares en un único pago. Asimismo indican que nada de lo que haga el usuario queda registrado, por tanto no hay limitaciones en el uso del servicio. [...]

By: Seventoes

Seventoes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:05 +0000

Got a refund today from vpn4life! Didn't even have to ask. Did anyone else get the same?

By: $50 for a lifetime of anonymous internet access: too good to be true? « Holly Swanson

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:28:07 +0000

[...] private VPN with unlimited bandwidth will probably run you at least $20 per month. Torrentfreak asked one VPN provider and found that the reason for that is simply that passing all that traffic requires purchasing a [...]

By: Seventoes

Seventoes — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:00:07 +0000

I dumped some money down the drain to see what they would do if they got an actual order. I got a seemingly hand-written (guessing from the delay time after the order was placed, almost 20 minutes, they can't be getting that many orders.) email from orders@vpn4life.com that said:

"Your order is being processed. Please allow up to 24 hours for completion.

The software will be sent to your email address. Thanks"

Then the next day around noon, I got another email from the same email, but the To field in the headers, instead of my email, was:

To:

In the email was a .rar file containing a windows .exe and a Mac binary, neither of which I've run obviously. The Mac binary has no file extension, so it's obviously not a cocoa app. Probably compiled from C/C++ source, and there's no way I'm running that. I'll try getting VMWare running and trying the windows binary in a VM and report back here.

By: csmcdem

csmcdem — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:04:43 +0000

Well I finally got my email. It's a mysterious looking rar with two files. Its just hotspot shield, a free app. I ordered it on Friday, and finally got it today (Monday). I got two emails saying to wait 24 hours. Today I finally got the email saying:

To: kunis_marfury@hotmail.com (NOT MY EMAIL…)

Please use Winrar to extract and install software.

In the event you are not fully pleased with your purchase and would like a refund, please reply to orders@vpn4life.com. If you go through us, we will issue the refund immediately. Thank you.

Attachment: VPN 4 Life.rar

I emailed them requesting a refund, and am waiting for it…

By: Floodge

Floodge — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:23:55 +0000

This recipient is currently unable to receive money.

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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:10:45 +0000

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By: CHAOS

CHAOS — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:34:12 +0000

Looks pretty scam-ish to me, thanks for testing it Seventoes

By: Frank Merlott

Frank Merlott — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:59:33 +0000

I would not trust a company that has no business model, if they close down shop in a month there will be nothing you can do. Plus this is a new company not some well established one.

By: mantra2

mantra2 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:51:50 +0000

I just did a WHOIS on one of the IP's they gave me

AnchorFree Inc. XOXO-64-55-144-0 (NET-64-55-144-0-1)
64.55.144.0 – 64.55.147.255

So now we know.

By: mantra2

mantra2 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:49:31 +0000

I also got my refund…maybe they just want to nab credit card numbers? good thing for paypal :)

By: tom

tom — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:44:31 +0000

Yes. Got AnchorFree software. It is a scam. Even the ads from them show up in the browser from time to time (which is how anchorfree is financing itself). But I just got a refund, which is strange for a scam.

By: lizunlong

lizunlong — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:07:52 +0000

Well, my PayPal payment has been refunded.