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It's understandable that at this point any Boards fan's heart would be racing after seeing that despite their brain telling them to be skeptical. However, before I show you what happens when you actually click on any of these I'd like to draw some attention to their front page:
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Now that we've crossed the line from BoC-like to straight up ridiculous, let's take a look at what happens when you attempt to actually download something:
Looks pretty spiffy, no? Well, things aren't always as they seem. A cursory look at the source code by anyone even moderately familiar with web design will show that this is not actually an Apache/2 server as claimed. It's a fake site meant to look like one. If this isn't already setting off any alarm bells, take a look at what happened when I attempted to download Seward Leaf:
(Ignore the LastPass bit, that's just part of a browser extension) Okay, I need an account. And what do they want me to do in order to set up an account?
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At this point I bailed out because sites like this that try to get you to give them your personal details for a survey never actually have the promised goods. Anyways, I thought that you should all be aware of this scam's existence so that you don't end up getting your hopes up like I did, or even worse actually giving these people your personal details in the hope that you might be able to download the 5 pre-Twoism albums.