Irishmary. Sit on them and I hope you get the refund.

jganaway. Just for information it seems ares.com is not doing the name of ares any favours. I believe the oficial site for Ares is http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

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Thank you to everyone for encouraging me to get my money back! I received a notice from the bank today that $46.65 was being credited back to my account. Honestly, I found the whole scam to be really discouraging and I would not have bothered to dispute the transaction because I felt to dang stupid for getting suckered in the first place.

I did not even realized I had been scammed until weeks after I made my "purchase." Truthfully, I had barely any recollection of which site I visited. I failed to keep any record of my transaction and no record of that day was left in my browser.

All I had was my bank record of the transaction: "DIRECTDEBIT/VISA-WP-DOWNLOAD SOCIETMONTREAL", (which is disturbingly vague and apparently refers to some "musical instrument store" in Quebec) and my sad, sad story to tell.

I went ahead and disputed the transaction anyway and won!

I would not have done it without the knowledge and encouragement I found in this forum. THANK YOU!!

I can't imagine that it is possible to have less information than I had about my Limewire "purchase." When I inquired at a few of these sights about "refunds." (Trying to figure out which one I had unwittingly joined.) I received aggressively threatening and hostile responses which implied that challenging my membership or taking the dispute to my bank would cost me more money. By then I realized that their threats were entirely empty (like their memberships)and I confirmed with the bank that disputing the charge would cost me nothing.

IF YOU REALIZED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED- IT'S NOT TOO LATE- MAKE THE MOVES TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK!
(and, more importantly, some self-respect).

I consider many valuable lessons well learned. Thank you all for your insight, experience, and wisdom.

I reported my scammers to www.ifccfbi.gov. they investigate internet fraud in connection with the FBI. don't know if it will do any good, but it sure made me feel better!

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Limew...-10376245.html
Free Limewire PRO Cram packed with Viruses and trojans. Watch out!

you should be able to dispute the charge on your credit card. the card companys follow up and will not charge you.

Just to let you know, I contacted the credit card company and today I notice they've credited my account with the money I lost. Nice one boys (Co-Operative Bank actually)

Good one! Well done! Most banks/credit companies will generally come thru if you approach them in the right way & to the appropriate dept.

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"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
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I was taken in by one of these sites selling Limeware (a different colour skin was the only difference). As I already have Limewire Pro I wasn't best pleased. They have said I will get a refund, but I have asked my credit card company to stop the payment - too late I'm told but they will investigate. I paid £33.36, so fingers crossed I get the cash back.

I wonder has anyone noticed the Google ads at the top of each page in this forum - many of them are links to these scam web sites. How can this be allowed on the Limewire forum!!

I hope someone investigates this - they should be banned.

The site after I had registered is www.TheMusicsMembersArea.com

What about the sites that are doing this? I mean is there a place to report them at Limewire if this happens to us? They are breaking the law selling copyrighted materials aren't they?

A little more detail on the rip off I have experienced.
The web site I signed up with was http://mp3musicaccess.com from an advert on Google.
No mention of Limewire was made, their software name was not disclosed and their wording inferred they could offer searches across many top p2p networks, but this only turned out to be links to download the other networks software. They also offered extras such as movie codecs and adware/spyware protection, but these turned out to be software you can get for free anyway. Yearly, two yearly or lifetime access was offered to this service.
After payment I downloaded their software, it was called 360Share and was identical to Limewire but with a blue skin, and of course all references to Limewire had been removed.
The company is called MP3 Networks Ltd in St Kitts, and the reference on my credit card will be MP3Support.net.

I believe this company has many sites directing people to this service, one other I know of is www.ultimatemoviedownload.com so anyone coming across these names please beware all they are selling is a modified Limewire product and links to other software you can get elsewhere.