A member of the Gamespot forums was unfortunately scammed by PSP Blender, a suspicious looking website I've stumbled upon more than once. The site offers a very ambitious promise: "With your PSP Blender Membership you receive instant access to millions of files ready to be transferred to your PSP. This includes but is not limited to movies, television shows, video games, music, and PSP software." All of this, for only $37. Sounds too good to be true, right? Of course.As the Gamespot member learned the hard way, this service simply offers you access to BitTorrent sites, where you download illegal content that's freely available on the shadier parts of the web. However, PSP Blender uses really shady tactics to get a sense of legitimacy. Look at this website, which can be seen frequently on Google AdSense (which PSP Fanboy uses). There are tons of review sites that have PSP Blender as their "top choice." Strange? Well, not when the sites are owned by the same people. A WHOIS record for both sites display the same registrar in nearly the same time. Every "review" on the site promotes PSP Blender. Sounds credible, right?
McAfee's SiteAdvisor shows that PSP Blender received numerous complaints, and the site is now listed as a "Phishing or other scams" website. It appears there are tons of similar sites out there, and all of them seem to be as shady as this one. Next time you're surfing the web, be mindful of scam sites.













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
11-23-2006 @ 11:54PM
schattenz said...
Sux dude, I think this is some part of the "dark side of the web", people keep eyes open about "too much for to less" ..
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11-24-2006 @ 12:36AM
Claudius said...
It is fairly obvious that such sites are, pretty much, a scam. Too bad people still fall for them though.
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11-24-2006 @ 4:35PM
Qtrain2Bklyn said...
Wow.. and to think that i was this close to registering with that site!
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11-27-2006 @ 6:18PM
patrick said...
well then we all know that Michail here is one of the people trolling the forums posting as teenagers to make it seem that psp blender is cool. haha what an idiot.
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12-01-2006 @ 4:02AM
Spider said...
It's funny how on this page there is an advertisement for PSP blender, and a link that puts it as the #1 PSP download site...i'm confused?
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12-01-2006 @ 8:22AM
Andrew Yoon said...
We don't control the ads that appear on this site. Like we mentioned, our site uses Google AdSense, which can display ads for this awful, awful PSP Blender scam.
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12-02-2006 @ 5:45PM
Steven said...
PSP Blender Rules! Long live free PSP downloads
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12-05-2006 @ 10:17AM
Kim said...
I joined PSP Blender and it is a waste of money. I have submitted 6 tickets on how to get a refund and have gotten no response. Also they have no other way to get ahold of them. If you have firmware 2.8+ you can only get DEMO games not full version. If you want full version they want you to put a mod chip in the PSP or downgrade the firmware. Also I download a episode of a television show and it took 6 hours to download and then it was not in english. DO NOT JOIN PSP BLENDER. If you do you will regret it.
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12-08-2006 @ 6:19PM
yaseen said...
OMG...and to think i was 1 click away from registering!
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12-09-2006 @ 3:58PM
Fez said...
wow i almost fell for it too
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12-10-2006 @ 3:36AM
ben said...
about psp blender
i joined for my 10 year old thinking it would be a one click easy site for her,opps,if your ok with downloading bit torrants maybe its worth it?,if not stay away
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12-10-2006 @ 5:24PM
freeman said...
I received access to some torrents and direct downloads as well. There seems to be a lot of trolling going on in this forum.
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12-14-2006 @ 8:29PM
Bryan said...
I joined it, total rip off, i even emailed G4TV and they told me it was a scam. Im just going to reverse the charge from my credit card. I am just going to tell the credit card company this story and they will suck the money out from PSP Buttface and drop it back off in my hands, isnt technology wonderful???
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12-15-2006 @ 2:49PM
Rosea said...
I paid the fee to PSP Blender. I can't figure out how to download. I don'y want to judge just yet, but I'm hoping it works or I will also try to reverse payment..
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12-21-2006 @ 11:14PM
Dorothy said...
Contact Clickbank instead. That is the company that PSP Blender use to collect money online. I've signed up with PSP blender and found out that their site is misleading. I've also tried asking PSP Blender for a refund, all they told me to do is to wait for newer technology / buy a mod chip. So I sent a message to clickbank with the Clickbank invoice # that is related to my PSP blender purchase instead. Clickbank refunded my money within a few business day. Just make sure you ask clickbank for a refund within 8 weeks, and with evidence of what made you believe that it is a rip-off.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:41AM
NEYVA HERNANDEZ said...
I GUESS I'M ANOTHER ONE THAT FELL FOR PSP BLENDER SCAM UNFORTUNATELY. I JOINED YESTERDAY, DEC. 26 FOR 10YRS OLD SONS NEW PSP. AFTER JOINING I RECEIVED CONFIRMATION E-MAILS FROM CLICKBANK AND FROM PSP BLENDER. I'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOG IN AT ALL. I'VE SENT E-MAIL TO ADMIN PSP BLENDER ADDRESS AND SUBMITED A TICKET. NO RESPONSES AT ALL AND THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CONTACT THEM. I CALLED MY CREDIT CARD AND THEY SAID I HAVE TO DISPUTE THE CHARGE. SOMEONE HERE, DOROTHY, SAID TO CONTACT CLICKBANK DIRECTLY. CAN SOMEONE SHARE CLICKBANK'S E-MAIL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER?
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12-27-2006 @ 9:03PM
Peter said...
How does that prove its a scam if you cant log in to your account or if you cant load ISO games on your 2.8 PSP? You can load ISO games on PSPs up to 2.71, and other content will work on your PSP regardless of the version correct? It really seems like alot of the people are complaining because of their own inexperience or because of their impatience.
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12-27-2006 @ 9:27PM
Peter Hodges said...
It seems from everything i am hearing it's a scam and it makes no sense to waste your money on something that is not 100% garantee to work. And from what i got from the whole blog it doesn't work it's a scam. ANd i was going to sign up for it to even though i got madden nfl 07 coming tomorrow i was going to try it anyway. Well Looks like i am not going to and forget all that hacking stuff i updated mines to 3.02 today and it's great alot more features. So to the avereage people out their i just say no to PSP Blender and just buy the game. And to the computer scientist stick to the bit torrents.
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12-30-2006 @ 12:41AM
Jim Habegger said...
I have some ideas for resource pages for responding to PSP download frauds, like PSP Blender. I'm posting here because this site has been one of the top responses to my searches for information on PSP Blender and other frauds. I'll working now on examples of the resources I'd like to see, which I'll post later.
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Contents of this post:
A. Resources
1. For getting a refund, and for reporting frauds.
2. For responding to posts in Internet discussions, that promote frauds.
B. Locations
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A. Resources
1. Resources for getting a refund, and for reporting frauds.
- Links and email addresses for writing to Credit Card companies, PayPal, ClickBank and other services involved in processing payments, to request a refund.
- Links and email addresses for sending complaints to the Federal Trade Commission, the Internet Fraud Complaint Center and other agencies that might respond to complaints about Internet fraud.
- Links and email addresses for sending complaints to Google and other Internet services that serve ads for frauds.
- Sample letters
2. For responding to posts that promote frauds, in Internet discussions.
- Examples of how to respond (or not respond) to reports of fast downloads, remarks about favorable reviews, insults and accusations against people who complain about frauds, and other comments in posts that promote frauds.
B. Locations
I would like to see resources like the ones I've described, on Web sites that appear on the first page of Yahoo and Google searches for:
- psp
- psp downloads
- psp downloads reviews
- psp scams
- psp hoaxes
- psp frauds
- pspblender, and the names of other PSP download frauds
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12-31-2006 @ 6:34PM
Dorothy said...
Just go to http://www.clickbank.com
Then click on the CUSTOMER SERVICE tab.
there should be a link for PURCHASE QUESTIONS on the service page. Click on that link, and then after the page has loaded fill out the form accordingly.
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