Megaupload Users Receiving Fake Settlement Demands

[exfileme]

Megaupload users and other file-sharers are receiving settlement demands from fake law firms.

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[danwat1234]

I wonder who's behind this crap

 

[LuckyDucky7]

Fake settlements, fake letters, fake malware...

So pay the settlement with fake cash; if these guys were even worth the postage.

 

[Guest]

I read an article from the New York Times a while back that the most proliferated scammers are located in the Romania city of Râmnicu Vâlcea . The disturbing part is that the Romanian people don't care if these scammers steal money from Americans (or anyone else). They assume that all Americans are too rich driving expensive cars and living in McMansions. Romanians see themselves as poor and deserve the wealth from filthy rich nation-states. The Romanian government won't do a thing about it, because these scammers is what supporting its economy. No ethical responsibility. These days the scammers are using proxies and civilians from former eastern bloc who want quick easy cash.

 

[A Bad Day]

Same situation in Russia. There were several hackers who made themselves well known (such as posting Facebook pictures of themselves), and the FBI knows their real identity and where they live. The problem is that the Russian government denied that there was any hacking problem and that the Americans were looking in the wrong place.

 

[Guest]

You can try to defend yourself from phishing scams by using Firefox addons: "WOT", "FlagFox" and "BrowserProtect" 1.1.3. These are just tools to help you inform if there is something fishy with the link, and hopefully not click it if it is harmful. If anyone wants to help on ways to secure a user from the internet, it will be appreciated.

 

[tokencode]

kimdotcom probably sold the list to the highest bidder to pay for his legal fees

 

[viper666]

inb4 hurrrr durrrrrr filthy east european peasants, amurrikans are #1 (although they stopped being #1 in the 70s)

>deserve the wealth from filthy rich nation-states.
>filthy rich
>USA
how's your debt coming along?

 

[jik]

[citation][nom]danwat1234[/nom]I wonder who's behind this crap[/citation]
Its a Nigerian prince

 

[Devoteicon]

This is a shame. For every five people that know it's a scam right away there's one that believes it and gives in.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]Devoteicon[/nom]This is a shame. For every five people that know it's a scam right away there's one that believes it and gives in.[/citation]

to the 1 in 5s credit, this is kind of how all copyright law is handled, scare you with a giant number, make you pay smaller for it to all go away.

 

[kinggraves]

But this really does ask the question...this isn't the only time a situation like this has taken place...so why isn't this kind of scam more frequent, why is it being done in THIS case? I can't tell who's more crooked, Dotcom or the feds, either one could set this up to make the other look worse.

[citation][nom]bunnywanny[/nom]I read an article from the New York Times a while back that the most proliferated scammers are located in the Romania city of Râmnicu Vâlcea . The disturbing part is that the Romanian people don't care if these scammers steal money from Americans (or anyone else). They assume that all Americans are too rich driving expensive cars and living in McMansions. Romanians see themselves as poor and deserve the wealth from filthy rich nation-states. The Romanian government won't do a thing about it, because these scammers is what supporting its economy. No ethical responsibility. These days the scammers are using proxies and civilians from former eastern bloc who want quick easy cash.[/citation]

Do you really expect former Soviets to embrace America? 50 years of your government telling you they're the enemy, followed by your government telling you they're to blame for the collapse. I can't really blame them. Many of them ARE poor, and the US DOES put out an air across the whole world that it's richer than it is. The US is that rapper in the club who just walks around throwing his money in everyone's face. Then his next album doesn't sell and he's back on the street.

If you don't want people to think you're rich and arrogant, stop spending money trying to "save" other countries and save ours.

 

[gilbertfh]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]Do you really expect former Soviets to embrace America? 50 years of your government telling you they're the enemy, followed by your government telling you they're to blame for the collapse. I can't really blame them. Many of them ARE poor, and the US DOES put out an air across the whole world that it's richer than it is. The US is that rapper in the club who just walks around throwing his money in everyone's face. Then his next album doesn't sell and he's back on the street.If you don't want people to think you're rich and arrogant, stop spending money trying to "save" other countries and save ours.[/citation]
Many of the comments are full of intolerant bullshit. US and Romania get along very well much better than many of Romania's neighbors. Is Romania poor? You betcha! Is the general populace in Romania out to screw the US out of money? Hell no! Countries such as this have limited resources and do what they can but when it comes to takedowns of solicitors and spammers it is not high on the list of things to do.

 

[freggo]

Oh come on. You've got to be living in a cave if you can not tell a real email from a scam.
If you fall for Nigerian Million $$ funds, British lottery money or fake law firm letters you kinda deserve being taken for a ride.
Simply check the FROM email address. Chances are it is gmail, yahoo etc. If that is not enough of a tipoff a quick Whois on the domain name will tell the story.

 

[eddieroolz]

What has this world become...

 

[belardo]

But at 147 Euros, its a very good deal. much cheaper than 10,000... it's worth a shot.

 

[shqtth]

Someone in Government leaked the user info after the raid?

 

[f-14]

been to romania, they are really poor, beautiful women and culture and architecture, but very poor. you have to remember these people survived years and years of communism and KGB like police forces, they survived by being the strongest or cleverest or most devious to avoid being hauled off, if you can survive that, the rest of the world better beware of you.
how in the world do you not realize how all these old saying get started and stick around for centuries? because they aren't true? come on " trust nobody but yourself" "don't trust anybody farther than you can throw them" " never turn your back" or "take your eyes off them" " keep a watchful eye on that one"

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]bunnywanny[/nom]I read an article from the New York Times a while back that the most proliferated scammers are located in the Romania city of Râmnicu Vâlcea . The disturbing part is that the Romanian people don't care if these scammers steal money from Americans (or anyone else). They assume that all Americans are too rich driving expensive cars and living in McMansions. Romanians see themselves as poor and deserve the wealth from filthy rich nation-states. The Romanian government won't do a thing about it, because these scammers is what supporting its economy. No ethical responsibility. These days the scammers are using proxies and civilians from former eastern bloc who want quick easy cash.[/citation]
The above is why one should not get their info from MSM; also, this is proof that thinking you understood an article doesn't make you smarter.
"scammers are supporting the economy"? Really? Do you have the slightest idea how many scammers would take to support a country's economy? no, you don't.
"That's why the government doesn't do a thing"? For starters, there have been a couple of Romanian hackers that have been on the news, and each time they have been caught and prosecuted by the local police. Yes, they were NOT extradited or anything, but they were prosecuted in their own country, like in any civilized nation. Second, this is a rare occurrence (hacking at that level). Also, there was someone from Romania that hacked into some NASA servers and I believe some other govt. agency here. He was also found and prosecuted in Romania. Thirdly, not even in countries that are notorious for their software piracy (China, Russia) one can not say that this type of activities is what's supporting their respective economies.
Try to get informed on a subject before bad-mouthing someone. And again, stop getting your info from MSM. Your brain might thank you one day.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]But this really does ask the question...this isn't the only time a situation like this has taken place...so why isn't this kind of scam more frequent, why is it being done in THIS case? I can't tell who's more crooked, Dotcom or the feds, either one could set this up to make the other look worse.Do you really expect former Soviets to embrace America? 50 years of your government telling you they're the enemy, followed by your government telling you they're to blame for the collapse. I can't really blame them. Many of them ARE poor, and the US DOES put out an air across the whole world that it's richer than it is. The US is that rapper in the club who just walks around throwing his money in everyone's face. Then his next album doesn't sell and he's back on the street.If you don't want people to think you're rich and arrogant, stop spending money trying to "save" other countries and save ours.[/citation]
Another ignorant; Romania has never been a "soviet". Ever.