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MegaUpload Back? Don’t Be Fooled by Scammers

megauploadA few hours after MegaUpload was taken down by the feds the first scammy replacements start to surface.

Tens of thousands of people are visiting these “revived” MegaUpload sites, which have nothing to do with MegaUpload.

If you see a site that looks like MegaUpload, it doesn’t mean that the popular cyberlocker is back.

There is NO official MegaUpload replacement online and it’s highly doubtful that there will be one anytime soon.

So don’t send ad impressions to these sites, or open yourself up to a phishing scam.

Sure, there are plenty of alternatives to MegaUpload, but MegaUpload itself is not back.

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  • HollywoodAnna

    That’s what I was thinking. Most look like simply cached pages just uploaded to other servers.

    • Anonymous

      Most of them with an ad of course…

      • HollywoodAnna

        Never noticed any ads myself, but then they’re not easy to spot from wget files. :)

        • http://ipduh.com ip intel

          do u still have any files hosted there?

    • Anonymous responder #1

      Also, the few I tried (from the MegaSong video) were down already.

      BTW, I’m not really afraid of viruses because I’m running a fully patched Ubuntu GNU/Linux install without Flash/Java plugins. :-)

    • http://ipduh.com ip intel

      I think it was worst than that.
      I was not just a DNS issue. For future reference you can see the real IP addresses involved below

      Now: http://ipduh.com/dns/?megaupload.com
      Before: http://ipduh.com/c/megaupload.com.html

  • Erthwjim

    And this is how viruses and malware spread…. Opportunists like whomever owns that IP..

    Oh and the stupid people that don’t know when to click and when to not click.

  • http://twitter.com/ILuv_XBOX MR.RYAN

    I Figured this was to good to be true but yet i still shared this ip i’m Retarded

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=42500886 Alex Kalisz

      me too buddy, me too

    • Anonymous

      Agreed – you are retarded. How could anyone following this case think that MegaUpload is anything but toast? Who exactly is left to resurrect it? Why would they bother? Funds are frozen. Servers are confiscated.

      It’s not like Pirate Bay, where the people running it actually have an interest in keeping ifnormation free. These morons just wanted to make a buck.

      Now they just want to get out of jail. How exactly would resurrecting the service accomplish that?

      • Rekan

        u know u don’t have to call them “morons”. oh when they were up and running u were sucking them off and all of a sudden your bad mouthing them. keep your rude comments to yourself. every single person i know has at least one time in their life gotten a file off that website.

        and dollar for dollar just from cracked software pirate bay does more damage to the industry than any other website. so dont start about them. but i still love them.

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    I wonder how many of the scam sites have MAFIAA, FBI or ICE IP addresses.

    We know these orgs already lie to us and their paid-for political puppets, and are happy to bend the truth or even break the law with no due process and respect for “We, the People”.

    So I reckon it’s no big step for them to get even more immoral, fascist and evil by setting up scam-sites themselves just to harvest IP addresses of visitors attempting to get to the real MU site.

    • Ball Juggler

      Yeah first thing i thought when i read the header was: Honeypot!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/chazzeromus Chaz Zeromus

    Yeah like I have a spare copy of their page archived to compare.

    • Fasjdiofasd

      Go to archive.org, dumbass.

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  • Anonymous

    This is one of the few trillion reasons to use ABP.

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  • NOP

    The following domains are hosted on that IP:

    http://www.ccebook.net
    http://www.ccebook.org
    http://www.ebks.cc
    http://www.satuno.net

    It looks like the IP used to point directly to satuno.net. You can even access left-over pages of it: http://109.236.83.66/view.php?s=redzsporrrtss

    Definitely a fraud.

    • Ntong

      actually only satuno.net and megavedio.bz hosted on that ip,the other three are not on the same ip. I thought the guy was using megavideo.bz, and seems now a chance to promo another megaxxx site…

    • http://ipduh.com ip intel

      Nothing there now. Do you have any copies of the stuff hosted on 109.236.83.66

  • Steven Gao

    wow, fake and gay sites

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  • http://twitter.com/PaulLemmingseo2 Lemmingseo2

    This is really stupid to do this kind of thinks, only the pleasure to play with the people ….
    htp://paul-lemmingseo2.com

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  • Chris

    Pirates being Pirates. They are simply trying to get high traffic to there websites to share and distribute “viruses”, “adware”. Funny actual

    HTML: http://pastebin.com/MeYbLJmM

    Who would place html linking to another domain
    “http://www.rlsgeek.com/7612/descargar-archivos-de-megaupload-con-megaupload-helper/”

    “”

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  • Mister-l

    megaupload was pretty cool, here is a site that lists all of the hot torrents, brand new >> http://www.made-downloads.com

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mic-Dot/100002567167151 Mic Dot

      atleast this one is for real guys, WTF with all of your gay ass sites with ads, not any ads on this one.

  • Tpbomgar

    Http://www.megauploadmp3.com

  • Jason

    The truth is in the below link, thanks DoJ for illegally destroying our files on Thursday:

    http://pastebin.com/iquHfjBa

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