DVD Decrypter is not back!

aradian,pottz and Shoebedobedoo used our news submit to tell us that DVD Decrypter was back. We would like to inform our visitors that the story is, in fact, false. DVD Decrypter is not back and please refrain donating to the scam author. Other forums and news websites have been across this problems lately, like Slyck.com or ZeroPaid. Someone is registering on forums with LIGHTNING_UK! nick, posting this story and collecting money from users.

Please remember this is a scam and access to the website - hosted on Tripod.com - should be avoided. This is the text posted at the fraudulent website:

I just would like to spread the word and let everyone know, you can now find DVD Decrypter at: <removed>. After a lot of hard work, I've brought the website back! The bad news is I lost all my programers which means until I find a new team I will only provide version 3.5.4.0 for download. If you have programming skills please e-mail me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! I"m looking for a wide range of people including reverse engineer, C++, C+ or anyone who knows how to update and maintain software programs!! If you have these skills, Please contact me immediately at: lightninguk.dvddecrypter@gmail.com and please know you will work out of the kindness of your heart as I can not pay you unless someone wants me to add a "Donate NOW" link to the web page! As you also know, I have lost rights to the domain name of: www.dvddecrypter.com I hope to set up a "Donate Now" link to get donations for a new domain or new host, what ever I can afford! I also had to redo the logo in the top left corner. I even lost the forum as well so it will be a while for me to redo the new one and you will have to reregister. It took a lot of time to get this site back up, and it would be nice if someone could help me find a new development team and more places to host DVD Decrypter for download!

We would like to remind our visitors to disable the Auto Update feature of DVD Decrypter. Also, if DVD Decrypter will ever be back, we will be among the first to tell you this. There are other free tools, like the recently renamed DVDFab Decrypter, which
you can discuss in our Copy DVD Movie Forum .

Update: it seems that I
missed LIGHTNING_UK!'s post in our CD Freaks Club:

Just to point
out/clear something up.... LIGHTNING UK!! IS a fake.

Tsk tsk
tsk!

Whilst I appreciate you were probably only trying to help, you
could well be making things worse. Macrovision and their solicitors DO
read forums you know - especially now - waiting for me to slip up and
breech my agreement


Nothing you've said makes sense. Why would I suddenly
ask for help programming when I've been fine on my own for the past 5
years?! Why would I have uploaded an old copy of the website - complete
with missing graphics, poor alignment etc? Anyone that knows of me and my
work would know it's not in my nature to let such things go
unnoticed!

All you've done is added to an already massive list of
places hosting my program. Did anyone need that? Certainly
not.

Source: CD Freaks