Fake Torrents

Aaarrgghh.... I can't think of anything else that could make your morning really awful than waking up and checking the torrent file you've downloaded for hours only to find out it's a hoax. Yep, I wasted my bandwidth and my time and electricity downloading a 700-mb fake torrent file. How did i know? Here's what I got:

Upon checking on www.torrentm8.com, they are instructing you to sign up for their porn sites and you'll have the codec to decrypt the video. Knowing that porn sites are so infected of malwares, spywares and adware, I never took a risk.
When I further googled this torrent file encryption thing, i found out that there is no such thing as codec decryption tool. Most axxo movies are not working. According to some, the torrent file you have downloaded makes you download another malicious file, probably a trojan or virus, in the form of a player (3W) or a codec.
When I checked the file properties, the video only lasts for 3 minutes, with audio bitrate of 0kbps, despite its big file size. So I resigned to make this crap work.
Here are a few tips to share on how to spot fake torrents (which I just learned because of this experience):

• Check the comments on the torrent file first (if there is). Previous downloaders in the torrent community will somehow pointout that the file is fake so as to warn other torrent users.
• RAR or zipped files are dubious. files should be in a clean AVI format (for movies). Zipped or RAR files are mostly for softwares and games and usually exceeds 1 GB.
• Suspicious instructions - instructions in HTML file are also doubtful since most rippers will have the instructions in NFO or txt file.
• If a torrent is password protected, there is definitely something wrong with it. There is no point in putting it on torrent if it is password protected. There must be another instruction for you to get the password (probably by downloading a malware unknowingly

And if you happen to download a fake torrent, do not seed it. :)