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An anonymous reviewer submitted the FapTurbo51 site to the FPA with a simple question. Is this legal?
I checked. It wasn't. The site belonged to a group claiming to be Russian hackers. They claimed they had decompiled FapTurbo and applied their own special settings to make it more profitable.
I reported this to FapTurbo. I'm told my report was the first of many they got. They've managed to get the website shut down. I held off posting this at the FPA until they could get everything taken care of. I didn't want to accidentally send more money to these scammers by giving them extra publicity just before their website went offline.
It was really just a hacked copy of Fap Turbo version 49. The improvements were only small changes to the stoploss and takeprofit numbers.
FapTurbo has emailed a link to a free copy the FapTurbo 51 version to their customers. No, I'm not posting that link here. This thread is about stopping piracy and copyright violations, not encouraging more of them.
I encourage everyone to think carefully before buying or downloading pirated software. This time, you would have gotten a slightly out of date version of a commercially available software package. There would be no support, no updates and no chance for a refund if you didn't like it. Other times, the software might come with some bonuses. Things like viruses or software that allows the pirates to take control of your trading account or computer.
The Scam Investigations Committee took one look and told me to go ahead and write up my own scam declaration. On behalf of the FPA, I declare FapTurbo51 to be a scam. Since the site is dead already, there's no need to list it in the reviews.
If you bought Fap Turbo 51, I urge you to file a PayPal dispute immediately. The people behind this scam sold you something illegal and don't deserve to profit from it.
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I checked. It wasn't. The site belonged to a group claiming to be Russian hackers. They claimed they had decompiled FapTurbo and applied their own special settings to make it more profitable.
I reported this to FapTurbo. I'm told my report was the first of many they got. They've managed to get the website shut down. I held off posting this at the FPA until they could get everything taken care of. I didn't want to accidentally send more money to these scammers by giving them extra publicity just before their website went offline.
It was really just a hacked copy of Fap Turbo version 49. The improvements were only small changes to the stoploss and takeprofit numbers.
FapTurbo has emailed a link to a free copy the FapTurbo 51 version to their customers. No, I'm not posting that link here. This thread is about stopping piracy and copyright violations, not encouraging more of them.
I encourage everyone to think carefully before buying or downloading pirated software. This time, you would have gotten a slightly out of date version of a commercially available software package. There would be no support, no updates and no chance for a refund if you didn't like it. Other times, the software might come with some bonuses. Things like viruses or software that allows the pirates to take control of your trading account or computer.
The Scam Investigations Committee took one look and told me to go ahead and write up my own scam declaration. On behalf of the FPA, I declare FapTurbo51 to be a scam. Since the site is dead already, there's no need to list it in the reviews.
If you bought Fap Turbo 51, I urge you to file a PayPal dispute immediately. The people behind this scam sold you something illegal and don't deserve to profit from it.
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