Topic: Increase Your Dropbox Storage - up to 16 GB - page 3. (Read 20136 times)

Service available.

No problem, Satori. Thanks for the information.

Very interesting.  Well, the technical information makes it reasonable enough to accept what you've said as valid.  I apologize sincerely for jumping to conclusions about you, dropboxexpander.

Freelancer.com's Data Entry listings are so full of job postings that end up being Dropbox scams, that applying for data entry positions is a lost cause.  Typical Dropbox postings advertise data entry positions, and often emphasize that they're willing to hire people who've had no prior data entry jobs.  30 - 40 job candidates respond with their interest.  Those candidates are PM'ed by the job poster, telling them that there's a few things they'll need to do to get started.  First, they're directed to an online typing test that takes about three minutes.  They're told to send a JPG of their typing speed results.  They're also given a shortened referral link to Dropbox and told to create an account there "to receive work files", and PM the "employer" with the e-mail address they used to register at Dropbox.

Reading the list of applicant replies, these postings get a lot of responses.  Each.  The entire lot of applicants is then kicked to the curb as the job posting is cancelled, and the process repeats: New "employer" account purporting to be from somewhere else, new user image (I got a nice Middle Eastern lady named "Dr. Munni"), same body text verbatim.  I was out for a data entry job, noticed this, and got suspicious.  That's when I checked Dropbox and found out they were offering free drivespace for referrals.

I've contacted Freelancer.com and Dropbox about it, but there's little they can do without getting together to share IP log information.  And even that isn't likely to do much if scammers are using proxies.  I suppose if Dropbox has been notified of this and keeps their offer without providing due diligence, they're liable to a class action from sites and job seekers for knowingly enabling the problem.

That's all the info I have on this.

That is correct. The referrals I create are "valid" in the sense that they work just like a normal dropbox account. However, they do have weird emails and names. I've switched between using a name generator and random-strings for emails a couple of times. Right now it's all generated names.

I'm very interested in hearing more about these so called "non-spoofed" dropbox accounts.

I'm assuming he does something similar to moredropbox's offering, which if I recall correctly works using a script on a set of virtual machines with Tor on them.

dropboxexpander, I'm glad to hear we're both in agreement that the method I encountered was wrong.  And my post was definitely pretty aggro, for obvious reasons.

I'd retract that hostility in a heartbeat, if I could be sure that (or similar) wasn't how your service works.

Satori, that's not the way the service functions, it simply wouldn't be reliable. What you are describing is very, how to put it in nice words, lame? I agree with you and my service doesn't work like this.

I'm sure you won't.  

When looking for Data Entry work on the freelance sites, we'd regularly encounter fake accounts there posting jobs.  They'd put 30-40 potential applicants per ad through an online typing test, then tell them to register for a Dropbox account through their referral link "to receive work files".  None of the applicants looking for work were ever hired.  The posting would be closed, and a new posting with the same requirements would show up from a different dummy employer account.

There's no way to know for sure that dropboxexpander is defrauding these job-seeking applicants, but it seems likely and we know it's how a lot of paid "Dropbox expander" services work.  By defrauding and wasting the time of hundreds of people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.

Good times.

Post updated, now you can expand your dropbox account to 18 GB with only 1.1 btc

Interested in this. Sent you a PM!

Update: Everything went smoothly. Really fast service. Thank you!

Thanks, service was delivered as promised.

The service is available, please check the first post.

It's fair game to post alternative services, just so long as you know the pros and cons. You may get more space with Box.net, but it doesn't have the Dropbox API that can handshake with everything on the internet ever. I personally think it's worth the tradeoff, even with with no referrals attached.

Please don't spam my thread. Thanks.

Did the 30 referral for 1.1 BTC. Got it very quick, thanks.

Why pay for 50 GB if you don't need that much space? Why you should not benefit from an existing referral program in order to get few gb more? That is not stealing, they are offering you more space for any new registered dropbox user which was referred by your link.

Why don't you pay Dropbox for the service they are providing you, instead of some random sketchy person on the internet? 

OP is basically a thief.

Just got my 16 gigs, everything worked out as promised.  A++ would do business again etc. blah blah.  Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.  For some reason my other referral from before didn't count towards the maximum so now I have 18.2 gigs total.

Post updated.

Your information is accurate