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Yet another snake oil anonymity product
(old news - 04:32PM Wednesday Jan 07 2009)
tags: legal · Fileswapping · business · networking · scam
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As we had warned earlier this week, VPN4Life looked a little too good to be true, the service 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. Apparently it's not even a good one -- some inspection of the code shows they simply ripped off Hotspot Shield, a free downloadable program designed to protect people's privacy while using public hotspots. VPN4Life since added a blurb to their website terms and conditions declaring no refunds, though some of our users say the operation is refunding money anyway.

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Cheese
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Sigh....

Since what I posted got deleted for whatever reason, I stated I smell a lawsuit soon due to the fact that they are now claiming no refunds once they were found to be scammers.
BigVe

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Re: Sigh....

Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
edit: Noscript don't like it either

Cheese
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Re: Sigh....

said by BigVe See Profile :

Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
Really? Haven't been there, don't think I will now either!

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said by BigVe See Profile :

Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
Err... Ok... Most up to date firefox and it still shows up for me. I also use Open DNS as my DNS.
k1ll3rdr4g0n

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said by Cheese See Profile :

Since what I posted got deleted for whatever reason, I stated I smell a lawsuit soon due to the fact that they are now claiming no refunds once they were found to be scammers.
For some reason "too good to be true" came into my head.
If this was lifetime of VPN - torrent or big downloads, I can kinda see it...but the price tag would have to be a little bigger. But, comeon, any technical person knows that torrents will rip through your available bandwidth.
DarkLogix

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Re: Sigh....

A torrent will only rip through your bandwidth if you let it
iansltx

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Not horrible...

VPN4Life quickly refunded me when I asked, and even said in their "software delivery" email that refunds could be processed simply by replying to the software delivery email.

Also, the site is pretty basic. No malware that I can tell, but quite scammy.

Personally, I wish there was a VPN where you could buy GBs of bandwidth for a set price, then use them whenever. Maybe 25 cents per GB if you buy $10 worth, 20 if you buy $20, 10 if you buy $50. Cogent network would be fine
JJV
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Re: Not horrible...

Relakks offers a cheap service.
There is a free trial.

»https://www.relakks.com/

David
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Re: Not horrible...

said by JJV See Profile :

Relakks offers a cheap service.
There is a free trial.

»https://www.relakks.com/
agreed, I use them and it's only about $65/yr to renew. Although if you do renew your service I would suggest you use IE for the transaction or have a really good translator for firefox.

Had I used IE I probably would not have struggled near as much to get the renewal done.
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k1ll3rdr4g0n

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said by iansltx See Profile :

VPN4Life quickly refunded me when I asked, and even said in their "software delivery" email that refunds could be processed simply by replying to the software delivery email.

Also, the site is pretty basic. No malware that I can tell, but quite scammy.

Personally, I wish there was a VPN where you could buy GBs of bandwidth for a set price, then use them whenever. Maybe 25 cents per GB if you buy $10 worth, 20 if you buy $20, 10 if you buy $50. Cogent network would be fine
Pay double for an internet connection?
Its called HTTPS, or wait everyone complains about MITM attacks (even though that really couldn't happen in a VPN scenario). So you would pay lets say $10/5GBs from your ISP and $1/GB from VPN R' Us? Looks like these costs will build up pretty quickly if you ask me.
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Re: Not horrible...

I'm not paying $2 per GB to my ISP, more like 25 cents per GB. And if my traffic is valuable enough to be routed over a VPN, sure I'll pay a little extra change to do so. Intertubes cost money, yaknow?

ctceo
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Isn't this like putting a straw inside a straw? This will still likely count against your ISP's cap if they have one.
iansltx

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Re: Not horrible...

Absolutely. But it resolves the ACK-limiter problem.

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Ha!

Of course they're giving out refunds. Thats a lawsuit waiting to happen. If you want some extra "security" on the internet and your a Mac or PC user try, PeerGaurdian. Its free, up to date, and shit as far as I can tell... it works.
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They can't even spell!

Connexion? Hmm, somebody needs to go back to school.

NetAdmin
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Re: They can't even spell!

That was my first clue that these guys weren't the real deal. If they were serious about selling a real product, they would at least spell information and concepts related to it correctly.
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Would it really sell if true?

I've got some good capacity/hardware setup to run such a service, but would people really pay for it? I mean, you VPN and then so what? What makes a real difference anyway if an ISP is going to throttle a service, wouldn't they target the "IP address with 10,000 simultaneous connections" first or just block the VPN service altogether if they wanted to?

How much would you be willing to pay/already pay for an open VPN service?

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ah!

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pwned?
Desdinova

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Re: ah!

But...but..the site says they still have 17 left! Did I miss the cut-off!?

Oh, POOP.

ctceo
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Back up?

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I don't get any errors when going to the site, and the paypal seems to be back up.

dave1978

Re: Back up?

Click the "proceed to checkout" button, where you will be taken to the screen saying payments are no longer being accepted for this account.

N10Cities
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Not now it looks like...

ctceo
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Re: Back up?

Yup, Confirmed on that screenie. This time it's the site, and not just PayPal, lol.

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