New Rapidshare Anti Hacking Precaution to enable

A new type of Rapidshare account stealing has started to circulate around the internet, where your account is phished (Hacked). The Phishing/hacking is done by sending emails claming from Rapidshare , Please note that Rapidshare or we never ask for your password.

The email will look like its from either support@rapidshare.com, abuse@rapidshare.com or webmaster@rapidshare.com but its easy to send fake emails these days so watch out, here is what the email will look like:

Phishing email

I've previously written about phishing scams which appear to look like Rapidshare pages, and claim to offer specific products (without linking to any actual files). Well, this seems to be an evolution of that particular attack. Here's one of the newer kinds of Phish I'm talking about.

"This file is larger than 200 Megabyte. To download this file, you either need a Premium Account, or the owner of this file may carry the downloading cost by making use of "TrafficShare".

The interesting part is that (unlike the earlier phish pages covered) these ones actually link to genuine files on Rapidshare, all adding to the illusion that this is legitimate (if you try to download the file on Rapidshare, you'll be given the same message regarding premium accounts).

Quite a smart tactic, then. Of course, you really shouldn't be downloading files with "Warez" in the name anyway...

Source

Phishing email

Phishing email

Dear RapidShare.com Premium account holder, By creating and using your RapidShare.com Premium account, you agree to abide by RapidShare's Terms of Service (TOS).

Rapidshare’s TOS States:

•No files with illegal contents, for example pornography, pornography, racist material and/or unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. This statement of categories is not the completed list.

•We will not tolerate any abuse of our servers for copyright violations and reserve the right to delete any file that has been uploaded and/or distributed in violation of German or international copyrights. Copyright protected content may especially not be distributed to third parties (for example by publishing links to copyright protected files on other websites).

•We will therefore delete any copyright protected file that we find on Internet Forums, warez-sites, etc. and suspend the corresponding account.

•We allow neither uploading nor downloading any illegal content to/from our servers, and reserve the right at anytime to suspend any account found doing so.

It has come to our attention that you have violated the TOS by illegally downloading copyrighted content and therefore your account has been Terminated This is an automated email; please do not reply to this email.

RapidShare.com Abuse Office

Phishing email

Dear user,

Your account has been suspended due to violations of our Terms of Use (http://rapidshare.com/agb.html).

The reason for this suspension is: uploading/downloading a lot of copyrighted material.

The decision taken by rapidshare staff in this regard stands final and will not be reviewed further.

Best regards,

Your RapidShare Support Team

RapidShare AG
Gewerbestrasse 6
6330 Cham
Switzerland

Web: http://www.rapidshare.com

This message is confidential and intended for the recipient only. It is not allowed to copy this message, or to make it accessible for third parties. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by email.

Phishing email

Hello ******,

Your RapidShare account is being terminated due to violating the terms of service. Illegal downloads are being hosted on our servers, voiding our terms of service. We have detected and deleted these files,
and are now in the process of terminating accounts that have downloaded these files. This is to ensure that more illegal content does not appear on our servers. We do not support or encourage the usage of illegal programs,
music, or other media. The terminated account will appear on Rapidshare servers for 2-3 days but you will not be granted access to it.

The login data for the terminated account is:

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Login: ******
Login Alias: ***********
Password: ***********
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* Please do not respond to this message as it is a automated service.

Best regards,
RapidShare AG - Support-Team