Scammers Try to Cash In On OiNK Misery
Written by enigmax on October 26, 2007There are always people who are happy to try to cash in on the misery of others. The OiNK shutdown is no different. Sites are appearing thick and fast asking for donations and promising relaunches. None of these are sanctioned by OiNK - don’t give them any money!
Mere hours went by after the OiNK takedown before sites started springing up claiming to be collecting money for OiNK’s legal defense or soliciting donations in connection with a revival of the site.
Some are displaying the amount of donations they have received and these seem sizable in some cases. Although there is no doubt that some generous supporters have already given to these funds, its likely the amounts of donations shown have been inflated to imply that this is the correct fund to donate to.
Fact: NONE of these sites are sanctioned or set up in collaboration with OiNK, so please, please, please - don’t give them your money! This has been confirmed by TorrentFreak directly with OiNK himself.
This means ALL sites claiming to try to raise funds for OiNK should be considered dubious. It’s entirely possible that some good natured individuals are trying to genuinely raise money but it’s impossible to separate the scammers from the tiny minority of honest people.
There may not even be a fund in the end, this hasn’t been decided yet so in the meantime, please keep your money safe.
Potential donors are advised to wait until we make an announcement about the correct fund to donate to. We will do that here on TorrentFreak.
Stay tuned.
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Thank you for posting this!
Well, people always want to cash in. What can I say?
Horrible, this capitalist economy, but wonderful also.
This means DDoS them all. Of course.
LOL http://Oink.ms
Off topic I know, but could you recommend a good router for DL’ing torrents? I have a netgear router and the thing crashes within 15 minutes of firing up my torrent client. It is a cheap router and I believe it is overheating. (I have tried o/fixes like adjusting connections etc.)
any help would be great. Thanks dude.
Alberich shut the fuck up
#5 - cups and string mate, cups and string
[quote comment="196752"]Alberich shut the fuck up[/quote]
You need to shut the fuck up, He was just asking a damn question.
Alberich, I don’t think the problem is with your router it shouldn’t crash your client. The only problem you should have with your router would be Port Forwarding. If thats the Problem Go to PortForward.com. If thats not the problem then Please provide more info and I might be able to help. Sorry you have to deal with an ass-hat like DJ
[quote comment="196769"][quote comment="196752"]Alberich shut the fuck up[/quote]
You need to shut the fuck up, He was just asking a damn question.
Alberich, I don’t think the problem is with your router it shouldn’t crash your client. The only problem you should have with your router would be Port Forwarding. If thats the Problem Go to PortForward.com. If thats not the problem then Please provide more info and I might be able to help. Sorry you have to deal with an ass-hat like DJ[/quote]
You can shut the fuck up too.
hey guys….let’s stay friendly…thanks :)
Let’s all just shut the fuck up, OK?
grow up
Yes grow up dj thats just lame
Wow, i just died a little inside.
On-topic, kinda sad that people feel the need to cash in on this. Kinda sadder that they WILL make money.
[quote comment="196776"]hey guys….let’s stay friendly…thanks :)[/quote]
shaddap.
Well, for one - everybody who is dumb enough to fall for this sort of thing deserves it… the only drawback is that the scammers get money.
(And btw. this is so the wrong place to ask a dumb ass question like that… so he’s either an idiot or a troll. Just ignore him! Are you all new to the internet??)
donate for something dead?
These scammers (no plugs here) who have put up pages soliciting donations have been fairly busy astrotufing threads like this with bogus claims.
When you see a post from one of these clowns, confront them on it.
People have donated to at least one of these sites- a sad thing.
It would be for the legal cost.
i would definitely donate some serious cash to help oink out and i don’t gives a fuck if they make it back or not
Why isn’t anyone outing the urls in question that are asking for donations in oinks name?
#19: look here, http://tehpaine.blogspot.com/
And I too would donate money to help Alan and others, regardless of if it leads to the return of OiNK. Whoever is being sued over this, if that’ll happen, deserves all the help they can get from the community, in my view.
linking to the offending sites would only increase their exposure… and lead to even more noobs donating money to these scammers
that site has been confirmed a scam by OiNK mods. don’t donate!
barneys go back to nigeria and die.
tehpaine is a scamsite trying to cash in on t-shirts beware.
the first and best OiNK blog is http://oinkmemorial.blogspot.com/ (besides torrentfreaks)
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