It is really a minefield out there and I notice that
www.emule-project.net has advertisements for scam sites at the top of the page. This sort of thing happens also in these forums and the way the advertising works makes it very dificult to stop.
Also
www.emule.org is very similar indeed to the official emule site, and it becomes pretty confusing, to the point that I am not 100% sure what I have said in the first post is accurate