Recently i encountered a strange thing! my friend’s Rapidshare account got phished but fortunately he was able to change his account password in time and prevent further misuse.

Below are few steps and safety precautions that you can do to not get owned!

1) Phishers normally phish using link protectors that hides the real download links of the file. So be extra cautious while clicking on those links. The real Rapidshare download link looks like this: http://rapidshare.com/files/111111111/xxxxx.rar”

2) Normally if you have login on to your Rapidshare account it saves your login details for some days using cookies. So if you encounter a login page while clicking on a download link, open a new tab and go to rapidshare.com, turn to the login page if it asks for user id and password then the link is legit or else it was a fake login page to phish you.

3) Enable direct download in your Rapidshare premium account option’s page, each time you click on a link the download box should pop up instantly every time but if you get redirected to Rapidshare Login Page, you know it’s fake.

4) Never believe e-mails that claim to be from rapidshare. RapidShare does NOT send newsletters, not even to premium-users. If they ever send they will send with your login details.

5) If you got finally got owned, instantly change your account password and logout.

Hope you love this cool tips that will help you not getting phished.