Comments on: Anonymous BitTorrent Service VPN4Life is a Scam

By: Mavi

Mavi — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:36:45 +0000

Think we all sensed this was a scam in the first place…

By: frenchguy

frenchguy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:21:15 +0000

A VPN by a PPTP tunnel, it exist, and for free! …but in french only ;) peer2me.com

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:37:55 +0000

proactive attitude- EuGene. Lets all sustain the same spirit and bring down the other scammers predating the web.

By: EuGene

EuGene — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:22:10 +0000

Cheated by that VPN service, so I reported to the "http://www.namecheaphosting.com"who host that client's VPN website, and now look …Suspended :)

Everyone give a big thanks to namecheaphosting :D

> To: xxxxxxx@hotmail.com
> Subject: [#167872]: Cheating website
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:21:12 +0000
> CC:
> From: abuse@namecheaphosting.com
>
> Hello,
>
> We've suspended this account.
>
> Regards,
> xxxxxxxxx
> Support team
> NameCheap Hosting
>
> Ticket Details
> ===================
> Ticket ID: 167872
> Department: Hosting — Legal and Abuse
> Priority: Critical

By: Logic « i found this thing next to the garbage bin…

Logic « i found this thing next to the garbage bin… — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:42:31 +0000

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By: VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product | Voip Blog

VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product | Voip Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:31:42 +0000

[...] offering customers a one time $29 payment for a lifetime of anonymous VPN-based BitTorrent access. Torrent Freak has posted a follow up on their original piece, confirming that the outfit is in fact a scam. [...]

By: Not a scam!

Not a scam! — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:19:49 +0000

I can sell a link to the software for 40$ – Thats 10$ then our competitor! Act now and I will give, for free, a link to a search-engine with lots of features!

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:37:11 +0000

I find you funny you daft twat – way to try to act like you have any idea of what you're talking about.

To tear your stupidness apart:

1. You can only proxy your tracker connection through Tor for regular (ie. not Tor Hidden Services) trackers – every client you upload or download to and from sees your real IP address. As pointed out, Tor is also slow and unreliable – perhaps using it as a proxy for the tracker would work but I doubt it would be reliable – and it would be pointless as you may as well just use a faster regular proxy to hide your location from the tracker.

2. For trackers running on the Tor network (or I2P or any other anonymous network) there is little content. Hardly anything in fact. And the speed is shocking – already Tor usually runs slower than dialup if you count the enormous wait time.

3. You're ruining the Tor network by downloading large files you dumb sh*t: this explains it http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119

Man your a retard.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:53:24 +0000

Looks like their site got yanked finally by the host! One down, way too many more to go.

By: ideaflashed

ideaflashed — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:41:13 +0000

Hi Enigmax,
I spoke to Anchor Free and subsequently mailed the details for clarification. Below is the transcript of the e-mail correspondence substantiating your inference of VPN4LIFE is a scam.

I would appreciate if you could add this to you earlier post.
ravi

Subject: Hotspot shield scam
From: "Eugene Malobrodsky" <eugene@anchorfree.com>
Date: Thu, January 8, 2009 1:51 am
To: ravishankar@ideaflashed.com
Priority: Normal
Mailer: Microsoft-Entourage/12.15.0.081119
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Ravishankar,

I would like to let you know that VPN4LIFE is a scam. They are reselling our
product without our knowledge. Our legal and PR are in the process of taking
care of this. Please release to the community the following statement.

"We want to make it very clear that AnchorFree and Hotspot Shield are in no
way affiliated with VPN4Life. We are saddened to learn that people have
fallen prey to the site's false offers, and urge anyone who has been mislead
to purchase our service through the site to file a complaint with PayPal for
a full refund. The real Hotspot Shield is 100% free and can be instantly
downloaded at:http://www.hotspotshield.com."

We would like to thank you for your dedication and helping us in hard
situations.

Regards,

AnchorFree Management

—–Original Message—–
From: Ravishankar Ganesan [mailto:ravishankar@ideaflashed.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:51 AM
To: Cecelia Marsh
Subject: Clarification.
Importance: High

Hi Cecelia
Subsequent to our tel conversation, Given below is the hyper link which
states that your product "HOTSPOT SHIELD" is being misused by scammers.

Kindly verify the article and let me know by way of e-mail about the
authenticity of the article.

http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-bittorrent-serv…
090106/
You can view my profile and contact details at my website
http://www.ideaflashed.com.

Your feedback would help me in getting across the truth to the community
and take further action against the scammers based on your feedback.

Any technical specifications substantiating your stance would be highly
appreciated.

regards
ravi