Security News Phony VPN Services Are Cashing in on America's War on Privacy

[spaceoctopus]

Don't look now, but online scammers are already hard at work taking advantage of newly signed legislation that allows Internet Service Providers to sell your online privacy, including your web browser history, to the highest bidder without your consent.

I received an email yesterday from a purported Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider called MySafeVPN claiming to be affiliated with Plex, the streaming media startup that I've written about many times in the past. The email led with ominous marketing speak alluding to "recent changes to US privacy bills, UK privacy laws, and more," asserting that Plex users concerned about their ISP gaining access to their download history should, you know, sign up for their VPN service. How convenient.
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[Amelith Nargothrond]

Don't look now, but online scammers are already hard at work taking advantage of newly signed legislation that allows Internet Service Providers to sell your online privacy, including your web browser history, to the highest bidder without your consent.

I received an email yesterday from a purported Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider called MySafeVPN claiming to be affiliated with Plex, the streaming media startup that I've written about many times in the past. The email led with ominous marketing speak alluding to "recent changes to US privacy bills, UK privacy laws, and more," asserting that Plex users concerned about their ISP gaining access to their download history should, you know, sign up for their VPN service. How convenient.
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Of course a lot of people will try to profit from this, it's pure business. But let's not forget the saying, that the idiots are not the ones that are offering, but the ones that are buying the crap. We can't call people idiots, they are not in this case, most of them will simply don't know that this is (maybe) a scam, but we can teach them who to trust. General users are naive and panic quickly, will fall into many traps, but it is our duty, the ones who know a little about how this business works, to teach them to use quality services and not letting them feed the jerks.

 

[Winter Soldier]

The VPN traffic is secure, encrypted, authenticated and intact, within the virtual network, but you have to use well known and legit VPN providers.

If you use a fake/scam VPN service you can have more privacy problems than those that you want to mitigate, and you're out.
The wolf is always lurking, keep your guard up!

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

The VPN traffic is secure, encrypted, authenticated and intact, within the virtual network, but you have to use well known and legit VPN providers.

If you use a fake/scam VPN service you can have more privacy problems than those that you want to mitigate, and you're out.
The wolf is always lurking, keep your guard up!

Very nicely explained! Specially the "more privacy problems" part, which is so true. Thanks @Winter Soldier !