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Rapidshare Accounts Getting Hacked

Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites and has millions of files stored on its servers. While you can use the default free service to download or upload files, many people decide to purchase the premium Rapidshare account in order to benefit from Rapidshare even more. Unfortunately, those who bought a premium account are in danger of losing it due to phishing scams. I investigated how you can protect yourself from such deceptive actions and here are my conclusions:

• First of all, if you suspect that someone unauthorized may be using your account, or if you already are a victim of a phishing scam, then change your password as soon as possible and log out. I think this is quite straightforward.
• You can enable direct download from Rapidshare premium account option page. This will mean that each time you want to download something, but will get redirected to a login page, you will know it is fake. Logging on a phishing website can be very dangerous.
• The real link to download Rapidshare files looks like this: http://rapidshare.com/files/12345678/xxxxx.rar. Be careful if someone gives you a link that looks differently as it is most certainly a phishing scam.

Most importantly, be careful whatever you are doing with your Rapidshare account. Do not share your password with anybody, and make sure to make your password as complicated as possible. I always recommend people to have hard to guess passwords in order to avoid any potential hackers.