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Scammers Try to Cash In On OiNK Misery

There 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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  • theoldmiami

    Thank you for posting this!

  • KingNerd

    Well, people always want to cash in. What can I say?

    Horrible, this capitalist economy, but wonderful also.

  • DJ

    This means DDoS them all. Of course.

  • Whoopdee
  • Alberich

    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.

  • DJ

    Alberich shut the fuck up

  • //

    #5 – cups and string mate, cups and string

  • DJ SUX ASS

    [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

  • 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.

  • http://www.torrentfreak.com enigmax

    hey guys….let’s stay friendly…thanks :)

  • Anonymous

    Let’s all just shut the fuck up, OK?

  • Anonymous

    grow up

  • xD

    Yes grow up dj thats just lame

  • CaL^

    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.

  • Brosef McNuttyfuck

    [quote comment="196776"]hey guys….let’s stay friendly…thanks :)[/quote]
    shaddap.

  • Ink

    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??)

  • peter

    donate for something dead?

  • Anonymous

    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.

  • Anonymous

    It would be for the legal cost.

  • peter

    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

  • Kram352

    Why isn’t anyone outing the urls in question that are asking for donations in oinks name?

  • wepo

    #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.

  • anonymous

    linking to the offending sites would only increase their exposure… and lead to even more noobs donating money to these scammers

  • peter

    that site has been confirmed a scam by OiNK mods. don’t donate!

    barneys go back to nigeria and die.

  • Mike

    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)

  • Anonymous

    ^^ hi-fuckin’-larious, that is.

  • oooohlook

    nice scam barneys

    p.s. you misspelled “countries”

  • Anonymous

    I hear the money collected is gonna go to the musicians you’ve been ripping off.

  • Anonymouse

    if you want a good router, get a d-link DIR-655, its a high end home router, its on the expensive side, but it works wonders and its easier than ever to use. i have had problems in the past with torrents due to cheap routers, they wouldnt port forward correctly. if you get a cheap router you can expect it to barely work, and i wouldnt rely on it port forwarding.

  • Benett

    The SC*AM-Site is http://www.oink.com/donate/donate.html

    D*DOS them somebody!

    The Official new OiNK is at http://oink.cx.la and will open on November 1. Approved by TooMuchTime himself!

  • h8scammers

    I know denial of service is never a good answer but someone needs to stop oink.cx.la from existing…

  • Milva

    I was ripped off when I donated money to oink.cx.la, they stole all my credit card information!

  • pundit

    [quote comment="197042"]I just donated $20 to oink.cx.la so they can pay their server for the November 1 OiNK-Relaunch. It`s a good cause and Too Much Time has approved them.[/quote]

    This is total bullshit. This site is a scam. TMT has not been heard from since the bust and these theives are spamming every forum they can find.

    If you really believe that .cx.la is the ressurection of OPP, would it hurt to wait and check it out after the Nov 1 “launch”?

  • chris m

    this didn’t need to be posted as news.

  • chutzpathetic

    [quote]I just donated $20 to oink.cx.la so they can pay their server for the November 1 OiNK-Relaunch.[/quote]

    You are either the stupidist person in the world or the lying bastard who put up that scam website.

    oink.cx.la has SCAM written all over it. No legitimate site could ever keep even a fraction of the many promises that site boldly makes. Chutzpah to the extreme.

    I’ll make a prediction: come November 1, insead of the “restored” oink site going online, there will be nothing there but a bunch of lame excuses, and pleas for even more money.

    Unfortunately there never seems to be a shortage of suckers. Many of them multiple times over.

    It’s funny how the police will completely ignore these scam websites that blatantly rip people off, yet the cops will focus all their time and spend much taxpayer’s money to take down honest P2P sites.

  • herman_m

    thieves stealing from other thieves. what’s so surprising about that?

  • troutmask

    so is http://oink.cx.la/ aproved by OiNK or is it a scam?
    Can somebody be clear here.

  • Greg(USA)

    ON TOPIC
    This is just another example of how people are greedy fucking bastards.

    OFF TOPIC
    DJ, you are not a gangster, you’re not going to shoot anyone, so don’t act like you might. Grow up, get your head out of your little intolerant world you live in, and join the rest of us.

  • Greg(USA)

    Oh, and Herman, we’re thieves but most of us go by some sort of code of honor. That doesn’t include backstabbing each other.

  • chutzpathetic

    [quote]I just donated $20 to oink.cx.la so they can pay their server for the November 1 OiNK-Relaunch.[/quote]
    You are either the stupidist person in the world or the lying bastard who put up that scam website.

    oink.cx.la has SCAM written all over it. No legitimate site could ever keep even a fraction of the many promises that site boldly makes. Chutzpah to the extreme.

    I\’ll make a prediction: come November 1, insead of the \”restored\” oink site going online, there will be nothing there but a bunch of lame excuses, and pleas for even more money.

    Unfortunately there never seems to be a shortage of suckers. Many of them multiple times over.

    It\’s funny how the police will completely ignore these scam websites that blatantly rip people off, yet the cops will focus all their time and spend much taxpayer\’s money to take down honest P2P sites.

  • http://www.torrentfreak.com enigmax

    [quote comment="196923"]Why isn’t anyone outing the urls in question that are asking for donations in oinks name?[/quote]
    Because its impossible to keep up with them. ALL sites asking for donations are fake and unauthorized. ALL of them.

  • troutmask

    “Because its impossible to keep up with them. ALL sites asking for donations are fake and unauthorized. ALL of them.”
    so the one posted here as genuine (I note that post now gone) is a scam…but my post questioning it is “awaiting moderation” what is going on?

  • thedude

    the whole p2p world is up in arms about oink but im not handing money to anyone until I see what was my homepage up again.

    You can be traced through paypal, and i dont want to be traced.

    i hate to reward off topic but
    @Alberich
    sounds like a problem i had with my netgear if so http://www.skyuser.co.uk is the answer.

  • Bully

    Paine recommended a very good article at Demonbaby at his blog. I encourage everybody to read that piece, even if it’s rather long. And don’t forget to digg it!

    http://digg.com/music/When_Pigs_Fly_Death_of_OiNK_and_a_brief_history_of_Record_Industry_Suicide

  • TooMuchTime

    Very interesting.

    Why do you keep deleting comments? Reading comments here doesnt make any more sense this way cos replys to the deleted comments still are here.

    What about free speech? You want free p2p but yet like the music industry censor and take off comments? LAME.

    Besides, everyone can decide for himself if oink dot cx dot la is real or not and the way you keep deleting even any mention of it makes one wonder what motives YOU might have. you get money for boink? you dont want people who are not your friends to run oinkv2?

    a lot of questions need to be answered!

  • Takashi

    There’s nothing on the page that proves they are who they say they are.
    what, just because of the color scheme people are to believe?

  • taser

    Lol@comments

    I think tf should do a blog article about Alberich and the problems he’s been having with his netgear router.

    It’s sure to be a hit on digg. They’ll digg anything posted onto tf. ;)

  • pundit

    [quote comment="197169"]Very interesting.

    Why do you keep deleting comments? Reading comments here doesnt make any more sense this way cos replys to the deleted comments still are here.

    What about free speech? You want free p2p but yet like the music industry censor and take off comments? LAME.

    Besides, everyone can decide for himself if oink dot cx dot la is real or not and the way you keep deleting even any mention of it makes one wonder what motives YOU might have. you get money for boink? you dont want people who are not your friends to run oinkv2?

    a lot of questions need to be answered![/quote]

    My question is why do you oink dot cx dot la fucktards keep spamming these forums?

    1. Your site is a scam.

    2. You are obviously reading these posts and posts elsewhere

    3. to give your scam a veneer of respactability (references to recent developments, names of OPP admins and mods)

  • pundit

    fuck you- I’m trying to warn people against scammers.

    Ban me- I wont be back to your TMZ site of bullshit hearsay.

  • Roflcer of the Lawl

    I wish I had a site taht was collecting donations.

  • 35

    is oink.cx.la the only one working on a new oink? the blogs dont have any info on a new oink?? (and i dont mean a PUBLIC tracker!)

  • Anonymous

    someone delete that previous post please. it is _not_ real and a scam like all the others
    DO NOT GO THERE

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha oink.cx.la? You fuc*ing disgusting scamming pr*cks. Seperate entry for VIP’s and ‘normal people’? hahahaha

  • 2342kekfifty

    Didn’t we learn last time when lokitorrents shut down what happens with donated funds?

    *laughs*

    Anyone stupid enough to fall for this deserves it!

  • Teoulas

    #36 is fake, there’s no official fund-raising site at the moment. Don’t fall for it! This is coming from the real ex-admin. And neither wartech nor mag have approved anything.

  • hypermute

    [quote comment="196742"]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.[/quote]

    Hi Alberich,

    try to limit the max half-open connections (~100?). Cheap routers seem to be overwhelmed by the data.

    This was also discussed here:
    http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=489

  • mAg

    [quote comment="197240"]…. approved by me, Wartech and mAg. Change the news and next time don`t jump on the bandwagon so fast :)[/quote]
    Nope it’s not!!

  • Teoulas

    [quote comment="197240"]http://oink.cx.la is now official approved by me, Wartech and mAg. Change the news and next time don`t jump on the bandwagon so fast :)[/quote]
    FAKE! Don’t fall for it

  • troutmask

    How come there are constant posts concerning cx.la saying scam, not scam?
    They are obviously a bunch of cunts out to make money from genuine people who wish to see the return of OiNK. They are thieves as they “intentionally deprive ” people of money. Unlike the good sharers of OiNK who were just music fans sharing their music with friends and depriving the artists, record company’s of nothing.
    It is interesting that the Police go for OiNK but not for these wankers…they may actually be the same people. They can make a buck or two, but will die a slow and painful death having never experienced what life has to offer in the way of all greed motivated morons everywhere.
    I await he return of a genuine alternative to OiNK run by the same decent people motivated by a concern for the good things in life. In the meantime many OiNKers have found a decent home at
    http://www.supertorrents.org/
    which I believe is still open to those who care to share.

  • An0num0s

    TF has a point they are all scams… but hell all the effort these people went through just to try and fool people into donating money. If people did donate then hey sucks to be them but im sure if they look into it hard enough their is a way to get that money back if they really wanted to. But… like i said… these people do deserve credit for trying.

    A for Effort!
    HAHA people got owned. LOL

  • Herr Ferret

    Alberich

    ‘Fraid router problems with torrents are hard to explain, it can often be base on the firmware and the chipsets inside. I find that most routers need a reset monthly, and usually the free or cheap routers of ISP’s are a pile of utter trash.

    Best plan, buy one. Test it. If it crashes return it and get another..

    And to the guy who told you to shut up. What an utter idiot!

  • Free Pirate Alliance

    Greed.
    ugly little thing isnt it, everyone has giving in to it at one time or another, presidents, congressmen, CEO’s, scum bag scammers, and even the average joe.
    thats where P2P comes in, people care, so they share, they are not consumed by greed.
    this evil will always be around, the only decent option to combat this enemy we all face is to keep sharing, and not give in to those who try to run us ashore.

    @Alberich
    if you cant find a decent router, try an old computer running linux, it can be set up to do the same thing and would be much better security.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="197045"]The SC*AM-Site is http://www.oink.com/donate/donate.html

    D*DOS them somebody!

    The Official new OiNK is at http://oink.cx.la and will open on November 1. Approved by TooMuchTime himself![/quote]

    whois says oink.com was registered in 97, the guy who owns it isn’t trying to scam anyone it’s totally unrelated. DDosing a site for having the same name as another is just plain stupid. I mean do you seriously think some guy registered oink.com in the last week just to scam people, if so you are a fucking retard.

  • chuck

    [quote comment="197784"][quote comment="197045"]The SC*AM-Site is http://www.oink.com/donate/donate.html

    D*DOS them somebody!

    The Official new OiNK is at http://oink.cx.la and will open on November 1. Approved by TooMuchTime himself![/quote]

    whois says oink.com was registered in 97, the guy who owns it isn’t trying to scam anyone it’s totally unrelated. DDosing a site for having the same name as another is just plain stupid. I mean do you seriously think some guy registered oink.com in the last week just to scam people, if so you are a fucking retard.[/quote]

    This is why people need to be getting after these a-holes. They are trying to confuse people into thinking a legitimate site is a scam site.

    LETS SAY IT AGAIN KIDS!

    http://oink.cx.la = SCAM

  • tempest

    The site the scammer (“Benett”) above references above has nothing to do with OPP and never did. It was around years before OPP existed. Calling for a DDOS- speaks volumes.

    These idiots behind .cx .la probably never even heard of TooMuchTime before reading these forums. When they are not busy posting here as ‘tmt’ LOL.

  • Matt

    [quote comment="196752"]Alberich shut the fuck up[/quote]
    You fucking PRICK

  • Michael

    well, all i have to say is, thank god OiNK is dead. there are just some depths you should not have to sink to in order to find content on the internet.

    there was a time when i liked OiNK, but that was a long while ago. the sty really needed cleaning.

    operating a modern private site is largely implausible given the means and motivations of the **AA’s.

    therefore, decentralised, encapsulated admin of a public node would be the best approach to getting another scene like OiNK off the ground again, but the achievement factor i.e. ratio would have to go.

  • dressup

    Thanks

    dressup = SCAM

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