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Aussie Rebel · 09-30-2008, 09:07 PM

Interesting........

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Two brothers who made millions from an empire of scam file-sharing sites have had their identities revealed. Matt and Jake Dylewski mis-sold subscriptions to FullReleases.com and dozens of similar sites, misleading customers and motivating them to take action. Most of the sites have been taken offline.

For those first getting interested in file-sharing, it can be a bewildering experience, with a huge array of software clients, sites and jargon to cut through. Make no mistake, it?s easy to take a wrong turn. Instead of ending up on Mininova or The Pirate Bay, novice users find themselves clicking their way to the dark side and ending up on a ?scam? site.

A ?scam? file-sharing site can operate in numerous ways, but in the end the aims tend to be the same. They either try to offload malware or, more commonly, try to part the site visitor from his cash by getting him to sign up to access the site with his credit card. Usually, users pay a relatively small amount in the first instance, say $5-$10 per month. However, it?s not unusual for additional charges to start appearing on the victim?s card at a later date. Canceling the agreement with the scammers can be a nightmare.

In return for the money paid, the user usually gains access to a basic meta-search site, which simply searches and offers results from completely free sites such as Mininova or The Pirate Bay. Millions of unsuspecting people are signing up for these scam sites (often advertised by ?legitimate? BitTorrent sites), and have done for some years now.

FullReleases

One of the most famous scam sites is FullReleases.com, which has been in operation for a few years now and has generated a fortune for its owners and a whole lot of misery for its ?customers?. Today, those victims have reason to celebrate since the owners of the site have had their identities revealed and, related or not, most of the sites they operated are parked and not longer operational.

M. Dylewski and J. Dylewski are reportedly the sons of Polish immigrants who settled in Surrey, BC, Canada. After their successes running a pair of warez sites, in 2005 they created FullReleases.com and set about making their millions with false claims and misleading operations which targeted naive entrants to the file-sharing phenomenon. The site went on to become one of the world?s most famous scam sites, parting untold people from their cash and prompting thousands of complaints.

However, rumor has that the brothers didn?t stop with one site, and started to build an empire. Dozens more appeared, with some deliberately named to trade on the successes of established genuine sites, with domains such as adultreactor, bitdig, releases.ws and rapidsharereactor.

Right now, many of these sites have been taken down, including FullReleases.com, and although this in itself won?t get refunds for those that have been scammed already, it will certainly give them a boost. It is not 100% sure why all the scam sites are suddenly parked or offline, but it is likely that the brothers are enjoying an early retirement.

So how can people avoid getting sucked in by these scammers and others like them? It?s amazingly simple - NEVER pay to download torrents since they are always available for free, and for God?s sake, Google!

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/massive-ware...-cover-080930/

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Look at the company allowing this shit

http://www.pirateaccess.com/signup.php
http://www.unlimitedsignups.com/ext/?aff=dw

pocketkangaroo · 09-30-2008, 09:16 PM

Isn't that what madawgz does?

KillerK · 10-01-2008, 12:16 AM

wow, thats cool shit

rowan · 10-01-2008, 12:36 AM

You could also say paysite owners are scammers because you pay them to access content that is free elsewhere...

(Ok, that WAS a joke!!!!!!! A bad one! :D )

riddler · 10-01-2008, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Isn't that what madawgz does?

pretty much

Klen · 10-01-2008, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Isn't that what madawgz does?

Not just him tons of people do and they using platinum bucks with it.
I'v seen tons of "legal" p2p sites which are nothing then giving kazza lite for downloading.
I even seen affiliate program with such sites which pays over epassporte.

cryptie · 10-01-2008, 08:37 AM

I pay, but i pay for usenet access ;) I hate p2p.

Ron2k1 · 10-01-2008, 08:44 AM

Those are the same people who were also running the site easywarez.com

TidalWave · 10-01-2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rowan

You could also say paysite owners are scammers because you pay them to access content that is free elsewhere...

(Ok, that WAS a joke!!!!!!! A bad one! :D )

Good comparison though!

starpimps · 10-01-2008, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Isn't that what madawgz does?

wasnt FullReleases his site?

WiredGuy · 10-01-2008, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by starpimps

wasnt FullReleases his site?

That's what I thought too.
WG

Agent 488 · 10-01-2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by starpimps

wasnt FullReleases his site?

warezquality.com - which is offline.

Tjeezers · 10-01-2008, 09:55 AM

Finally!!!

Good News!!

Manowar · 10-01-2008, 09:58 AM

damn, wonder why they have no solid figure

sortie · 10-01-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Aussie Rebel

Interesting........

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/massive-ware...-cover-080930/

More Info On Scammers http://fileclub.info/

Look at the company allowing this shit

http://www.pirateaccess.com/signup.php
http://www.unlimitedsignups.com/ext/?aff=dw

I like how they refer to psp sites with tons of stolen content as legit sites.

It's ok to steal from people who create things but don't steal from the people trying
to steal from people who create things because then it's a scam.

mpahlca · 10-01-2008, 10:24 AM

LOL look at the parked domain http://www.fullreleases.com and then check out that its parked by http://www.maddogdomains.com/

Oracle Porn · 10-01-2008, 10:34 AM

you remember maddog posting a pic of his ps3 after he send 100 sales in a week to platinum bucks, how do u guys think he did that? with tgp galleries? lol

Agent 488 · 10-01-2008, 10:37 AM

wonder if he is on the run too? what does his mother think?

Agent 488 · 10-01-2008, 10:39 AM

googling i found this:

http://bewareofpay2download.blogspot.com/

Brujah · 10-01-2008, 10:40 AM

Run maddawgz run! Don't let them take yo money!

dready · 10-01-2008, 10:42 AM

As I said in the other thread... Platinum Bucks bottom line must have just taken a major hit.

Aussie Rebel · 10-01-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dready

As I said in the other thread... Platinum Bucks bottom line must have just taken a major hit.

I doubt it, they are still taking sales from these http://www.pirateaccess.com/signup.php
http://www.unlimitedsignups.com/ext/?aff=dw

and I'm sure if ya looked around there would be more

WiredGuy · 10-01-2008, 07:40 PM

So reading all this, it looks like the domains were taken down voluntarily because of all the press happening. No assets were seized, no government bodies involved. Whats to stop them from opening new domains tomorrow and starting over?
WG

uno · 10-01-2008, 08:14 PM

Where's his lil lackey thehinje or whatever.

Pics Traffic · 10-01-2008, 08:36 PM

I don't think they can do anything to those guys. Usual crap, nothing on their servers, not passing any illigal software etc..

~Ray · 10-01-2008, 09:02 PM

I hope he enjoys looking over his shoulder

pocketkangaroo · 10-01-2008, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MOCKBA

I don't think they can do anything to those guys. Usual crap, nothing on their servers, not passing any illigal software etc..

I think the issue is that they are pretending to sell a subscription but are framing a Platinum Bucks site instead. So people think they are signing up for access to the site but are instead being billed by a porn company they probably have no idea how to cancel.

It's fraud and money laundering.

Pics Traffic · 10-01-2008, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

I think the issue is that they are pretending to sell a subscription but are framing a Platinum Bucks site instead. So people think they are signing up for access to the site but are instead being billed by a porn company they probably have no idea how to cancel.

It's fraud and money laundering.

not any different from x-sell that everyone's pushing.

VeriSexy · 10-02-2008, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sortie

I like how they refer to psp sites with tons of stolen content as legit sites.

It's ok to steal from people who create things but don't steal from the people trying
to steal from people who create things because then it's a scam.

A circle jerk of irony

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