Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Scam of the Day: PS4Jailbreaker dot com. More surveys for you, more money for them


PS4Jailbreaker .com is a scam, they won’t “jailbreak” your PS4, they will just ask you to fill a survey for which they will get paid, and you won’t get anything in exchange. If you want the latest and greatest news about the possibility to hack your PS4, bookmark our “PS4 CFW for Dummies” page, which will have all the information needed, the day a hack is actually made public. Please share this information with your more gullible friends, who don’t know the difference between reputable scene websites, and stupid cash grab schemes.


It’s been a while since I last debunked one of those fake “Vita iso” or “PS4 iso” websites.
Yesterday one of these sites had the audacity of posting a link to their *** directly in the comments of my blog. So I decided I’d thank them, by calling them out publicly for their scammy website.

The website involved here is fake website ps4jailbreaker .com. PS4Jailbreaker .com is a scam website, put in place to make a quick buck on some fake download.

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The site is an unoriginal and typical scam (I guess people still fall for these, so next time someone asks you if this is real, kindly point them to this article). PS4Jailbreaker .com pretend to offer a free jailbreak of your PS4, all you have to do is complete a survey to get your download. The surveys will take some of your precious time, and the owners of the site will get paid for each complete survey.

The chances of you actually getting your download at the end of the survey are slim at best. The possibility of you actually being able to “jailbreak” (hack) your PS4 with whatever you end up downloading, is 0.

It is not possible at the time of this writing to fully hack a PS4. When something looks too good to be true, it’s because it’s too good to be true. You can avoid scams such as PS4Jailbreaker .com by simply using this thing that us human beings call a brain: If there existed a method to hack the PS4 like these guys pretend to offer, all major scene websites would be talking about it, *before* you even realize the method exists. We have a community of thousands of people here, looking daily for all possible news related to hacking the PS4. It is statistically impossible that you could find out a “revolutionary” technique that we haven’t heard of.

The day a hack of the PS4 will exist, it will be on the front page of this website and other major scene websites. Heck, it will probably also be in the news of mainstream technology sites. So, don’t feel clever because you only just found out about the fake claims of PS4Jailbreaker .com, you’re actually on the verge of netting these guys $5 of your time, for nothing in return.

When a hack for the PS4 is truly available, it will be explained in details on our “PS4 CFW for dummies” page. That’s the page you need to bookmark for news on that.

Besides this very easy way to detect scam websites such as PS4Jailbreaker .com, you can also see that the techniques used on their website are fairly obvious: newly created website for the purpose of the product (the only people doing this are people selling a new hardware mod such as Sky3DS or trueblue.

When it comes to software hacks, you will usually hear about those on a hacker’s blog, twitter account, and here, before anyone thinks of even creating a dedicated websites. Hackers are too busy actually hacking, they usually won’t create a brand new website for one of their releases!)

Very typical of these websites too is the suspicious “did this hack work for you” vote system. Again, real hackers wouldn’t care about putting such a dumb thing in place.

Again, whenever a hack comes for the PS4, you’ll hear about it almost instantly on this site and other reputable sources. Don’t try and think you’re more clever than everybody else because you found an unvisited dark corner of the intertubes: most likely you’ll get mugged. This is the case with the scam on PS4Jailbreaker .com, a site that will basically steal your time to fulfill a survey, make money out of it, and leave you with nothing. Not dangerous per se, but definitely not worth your time.
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(For the conspiracy theorists out there, feel free to actually try. You’ll give these guys the money from your survey, and will end up with nothing in exchange. That will be a great life lesson for you)

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