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Platinunbucks scam? Please someone from pb step in!!
Hello, i'm aware PlatinumBucks has been around for a long time and seems to be a big/good company, but i just experienced something AT LEAST odd which probably someone from the company should notice and take action on it ....
I was browsing the net trying to find a tool ( ffmpeg, an open source tool for video manipulation ), and i got to a site called baydownloads.com which seemed to have what i needed. So i had to pay a trial payment of 4.95 to get access to the package. Once i joined, the suscription form actually joined me to megadownloadpass.com .... So, two options, or the scam site baydownloads.com which is proxying sales to megadownloadpass.com is from platinumbucks people OR an affiliate is doing a scam to get paid for adult suscriptions which probably will get a lot of charge backs ( I'm right now calling my bank to do so ... ). Could someone from PlatinumBucks please contact me asap on icq cause this is a serious thing .... We are taking about fraud and clearly violation of the TOS of any serious CC processor ( At least the ones PB seems to be using Epoch/CCBILL/etc ) .... On the other hand, leaving this fact behind, still when i try to cancel the trial membership, its being done very difficult ......... ICQ: 278-058-243, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP! /s |
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madawgz where are you
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#3 |
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This isn't news. They have been doing this with lots of sites for years.
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Tap into MOBILE!
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Why are you paying for warez?
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Type in "ffmpeg" in google and where does it take you?
Why in the hell would you pay for something that is free. |
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Someone point this guy to proper thread
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#8 |
So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Theyve been doing that for ages. Welcome to the internet.
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#9 |
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LOL, i knew someone stupid enough not to read my message was going to send something like this even when i left clear the fact it was not warez ....
Check google for ffmpeg .... its an OPEN SOURCE PACKAGE! You can download it and use it for free .... i just wanted a Windows version of it and as i didnt wanted to compile it myself i searched the net for someone who already had and it seemed that on that site there was a version ( Next time just take the time to read the whole message before writing ) ... just in case you didnt understand it: ITS NOT WAREZ! Ps: Still, if i were downloading warez, which i'm not, that doesnt invalidate the fact of the fraud i'm mentioning .... /s |
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#10 |
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Wanted wind32 compiled version with vhook support ... its a messs to compile it myself, i would had to install Visual Studio which i didnt on this machine, lets say i'm a moron and i just wanted to pay ;P Now lets focuse on the fraud ;)
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The win32 binary is free too.
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#12 |
So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Anyway, thats what you get for signing up for warez sites.
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ok, their cancellation page is a mess, difficult to cancel membership BUT i must admit that i sent an email and i got a really quick answer ...
Greetings NorbertoEmiliano, Your member account has been cancelled. Site name: megadownloadpass.comSite URL: Members AreaValid until: 2008-10-17 15:05:26 STILL, i want to know what happened, cause clearly my CC information was proxyed so i want to know whats going on, how can i know now if my CC information wont be used in the future by a third party ? its funny that actually i would be happier to know this is a scam from them and not from an affiliate LOL So, platinumbucks representative, please contact me asap .... I'm serious .... Dealing with CC information this way is no joke, nor for me, nor for CC processors, nor for banks behind the CC processors and of course nor for the FTC itself .... Still waiting .... /s |
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![]() Sorry, this answer was for k0nr4d, about what i get when joining for warez site, yeap, it seems there are no serious guys behind the warez site, dam, you cant trust no one nowadays ;) anyway, need to continue watching a porn movie in a wonderful tube site i just found ;) /s |
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Tap into MOBILE!
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Search on their site for "ffmpeg" on baydownloads.com Downloading Freedom (That's their tag line) Ffmpeg ripped 01-10-2008 added to New Releases 11.4 days ago 1385 Kb/s So regardless you are paying for a warez site. |
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A. Actually PB owns the site so just proxys suscriptions and say if someone complains "hey, they are proxying the signup page, we are no responsable", which talking technically, its not that true .... Speaking technically and legally :P They are responsable for their affiliates ;) If not talk with some huge sponsors, if not to say the biggest one about affiliates doing email spamming and the huge sum of money they had to pay to FTC for an affiliate doing email spam ;) B. Warez site off course never gets CC processing approval for obvious reasons so this way they can "charge" for the access to their site .... And i guess they picked a porn site signup form to proxy instead of a mainstream one because we all know the "ethic" of porn sponsors ( If not sure what i'm talking about you can search in the last years a lot of different nice topics covering sponsors supporting different wonderful advertising options such as Trojan/Spywares, Email Marketing, or the latest great tendency Tube Sites :P ) /s |
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So lets say that i'm a stupid for joining that site ![]() /s |
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You paid $4.95 to get software that's free? Wow, you're convincing me to open one of these sites, lol.
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Ps: ITS NOT WAREZ! The soft i paid for downloading is not warez, actually didnt know the site was warez, i thought it wasnt cause i couldnt understand any CC processor would process a warez site .... but again, even if it was, i paid for the "compiling service" lets say .... PlatinumBucks representative please ??? come on ... i thought big sponsors answered quick ? /s |
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you can charge for anything if its presented right, there are guys charging money in mainstream magazines to submit your webpage to google and msn
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They obviously don't give a shit.
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=248632 Win32 version of ffmpeg, took less than 15 seconds with Google. WG
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jesus christ people , shoot the messenger, he is explaining a typical surfer process and a completely illegal transaction by pb. He wanted a non-standard addon for an open source product , he got ripped off and assumed maybe other people would like clarity on an often fuzzy subject.
You should have taken screenshots.
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Now choke yourself!
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The idiot tax has never been repealed.
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![]() Seriously though its really funny when i am with some friends and they google something for about 10 mins before i step in plop my keywords down and find what they wanted in like 5 seconds, and these aren't novices either. If i knew i sucked at searching , i wouldnt mind paying $5 to get exactly what i wanted , even if i knew i could find it for free.
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PB has been involved in this scam for years and years, but this year they have been reported to heaps of different US and Canadian authorities, including the ftc and Visa, so I guess we will just have to sit back and see what happens
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