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.

Thanks for the info, I will keep clear of those sites.

I have been scammed by musicmembers. I wanted to upgrade WinMx which I did not know had been shut down. While I though I was upgrading WinMX it was actually to download LimeWire.

I filled in the registration form with all my details and was offered:

Lifetime Full & Unlimited Access with 25% off - $22.46USD
Pro Version Upgrade - Movie Codec Pack - $14.9****
NetSpyProtector Option - $9.88USD

An email came through with all the details of my Membership and and Order ID Number. All looks legitimate but a total scam.

Of course the credit card charge went through. I phoned the bank when I realised what a fool I had been but they could do nothing as I had authorised the charge.

The website for Musicmembers looks very professional but there are no contact details such as an email address or street address. The phone numbers given are probably linked to permanent recording so you never get to speak to anyone. They claim that you can be refunded if you are not satisfied with the product which is a joke if you can't contact anyone.

I have learned a whole lot through this experience. Although I now have LimeWire which works very well I could have downloaded it from this site without the cost. I don't have LimeWire Pro so I have paid for something I haven't got.

Should I report this to someone?

1. View back the previous posts (yeah I know there's a lot of them but a lot of good advice), here's one get your $$$ BACK!!! (music members)

2. Here's another for reporting: Known Scam Sites (click on link) & see the FBI link!!!

BTW can you provide a url address to see if it's already been listed?!?

Thank you for your response and the comments made by other members.

The offending web site is: http://www.membersarea.com/login.asp

I did find it in your list of rogue sites after searching this forum for some answers. Thanks for that as it was the vital piece of information I needed to confirm what I suspected.

As I am in Australia it is very difficult to telephone them and this is the only point of contact listed on the site. On one of their pages there is a box which says: we are currently offline, click here to email us. Well it takes you to a page that doesn't exist.

I have written off the money for the moment but I will be looking at my bank statements very closely and the bank has been notified about this.

I will report it through the FBI link as anything that helps to stop internet abuse is a good thing.

It's amazing, we can land a man on the moon but keeping the internet 'clean' is beyond us at this point in history. It's been a very valuable learning experience for me and I really appreciate being able to report it through this forum.

The site that ripped me off (38 pounds sterling! AAAAGHH!)
is called E-Mule, so all beware of this pile of filth, it's the root of all evil.

Biological disaster can you provide a URL so we can add it here Known Scam Sites (click on link)

My main concern is whether anybody has had other amounts of money debited from their accounts after giving their card details?

http://www.emuleunlimited.com/