How to use Rapidshare: A safe and simple guideline

Monkey D. Ruffy

Monkeys Guide How to use Rapidshare (and recognize phishing links):

Here's a guideline to activate the direct download option of your rapidshare premium account.
This is a real safe way to make sure, you don't login at phishing sites.

All rapidshare links you click or copy in your browser starts immediately without redirection.

Only exceptions are dead links (e.g. file not found, forbidden to share etc.).

Log into your account (picture 1) and make sure it's not a phishing site (see https picture 2).
Hover over the symbol.

Picture 1:

Picture 2:

English login picture (picture 3):

Picture 3:

German login picture (picture 4):

Picture 4:

A certificate pops up (picture 5):

Picture 5:

After you are logged into your account, go to options (picture 6):

Picture 6:

Check the Direct Download box (picture 7):

Picture 7:

Now every download starts immediately as long as you are logged into your account (if you don't delete the RS cookie).

The language you can see in my pictures is German, but I think the buttons should be on the same place.

Here is a typical rapidshare phishing example (picture 8).

Picture 8:

You can see though I'm logged into my RS account, the site can't find the cookie (of course, it's a fake site and they cannot read the RS cookies).

Another one (picture 9):

Picture 9:

You can see the difference between real and fake.

Here's a naked phishing link without redirection (picture 10):

Picture 10:

Here's an address without (picture 11) and with redirection (picture 12):

Picture 11:

Picture 12:

A popular and often used link protection site used by phishers to disguise their fake sites is lix.in (picture 13):

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But they also use other protection sites to disguise their phishing sites.

Will continued.

Monkey D. Ruffy

Abraxas · Administrator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 2303

Thanks, Monkey D. Ruffy. That should help the folks who are new to file sharing via Rapidshare.

Shadowman · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

Nice work Monkey D.

billyellis · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:11 am Post subject:

Abraxas · Administrator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 2303

Hi, billyellis. You are right, so I made it a sticky.

As I said already Monkey D. Ruffy, good post and thanks for the work that you put into it.

Monkey D. Ruffy · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks all for your nice comments and Abraxas for sticking it Smile

Yeah, took a good while to collect and edit all shots.

Have collected a nice amount of different RS phishing sites so far (almost more than 20 sites, most hosted on ripway.com or ofingo.com).

Some rare phishing sites are fake MU or depositfile sites.

As said above RS Premium user should activate direct download, and they will have hardly any problems with phishing.

Better safe than sorry.

Monkey D. Ruffy

billyellis · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the work you put into this. Smile

One question - what about download managers like Flashget? If you set a universal username/password, I guess you need to be really careful that the links all are for RS.com or else the DM will automatically submit your username/password to the phishing site...

EDIT: Also, I would point out that surfers using FF with NoScript are probably not seeing the authentication logo since the comodo.net domain will be blocked by default. Makes it a little trickier to detect phishing sites. Confused

Monkey D. Ruffy · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

billyellis · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

AKAbob · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:33 am Post subject:

Thanks Monkey D. Ruffy for all the effort that went into this thread

gapo · Respected Poster Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 132

Thanks for this info

faustx · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

Yes..thanks for the explaining it, so my beerbrain get it to..
Damm, i miss many tecnichal terms in danish.. Rolling Eyes