Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Coral Player

at Wednesday, January 12, 2011
There is a common habit in internet users to download videos. Most if them work perfectly fine on our video players. But sometimes, the video is encoded and would play on some particular video players only. There are many such video players and one of them is Coral Player. And this player is not genuine but a scam.

Coral Player is a scam, but not a virus. Basically the maker's create fake torrents - usually new release or popular movies. They claim to be avi files of the movie, and usually ~ 700mb or so.


However when you get the movie, all it is, is a trailer and tells you to go and download coral player. If you fall for it, it asks you to pay a small fee to use coral player but you gotta give them your credit card number, which they then charge a monthly fee of about $30 . But you never get any player to download, and the file that claims you need Coral Player to play it, isn't even a movie file at all - it's just a trailer with Coral Player ad.
They 'pad out' the file to make it roughly the size of a legitimate movie, so people will download it, I mean after all, if you saw a "movie" that was only 1.5mb would you fall for it and download it?

In short, a complete scam - if you get one of these files just delete it - anything that asks you to download a "special" movie player to play it, chances are high it being a scam.


VLC Media Player

Personally I recommend downloading VLC player. It's an open source video player. There is no format that I know this cannot play. So if you open up a video file in this program and it doesn't work, it could be some other file and not a video file. Also, audio files can be run on VLC. So, it's a nice player.
You can download it here.



Disclaimer:
This is just a information that I got to know. If anyone has actually used Coral player and if it is not a scam, pleae let me know. I would be happy to correct it. It's just my opinion.. You are advised to do your own research before believing anything or taking any action.
Author : Saurabh Jain

64 comments:

  1. Martik PanosianJanuary 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM

    Yes, you completely right. the "Coral Player" is a SCAM.

    Here is some information I got:
    http://martik-scorp.blogspot.com/2011/01/coralplayer-is-scam.html

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  2. NamanJanuary 16, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    Great. I thank you as I was just about to buy into this scam..!

    Thank You.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 19, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    Hello Jammy. I was just about to buy that freaking Coral Player when I read this blog. Thank you very much for exposing their modus operandi, encoding movies in their own format, then creating a player that would play those "stolen" movies in exchange for money. Absolutely it's a scam!

    To all those who are able to hack and are reading this: "Why don't we just wage war against this scammer and teach him a lesson?!"

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  4. AnonymousApril 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    ya teach him a lesson.

    i spent 3 days downloading the movie at a speed of 256kbps.

    WTF!! he is an idiot.............

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  5. The Punjabi HawkApril 22, 2011 at 2:56 AM

    I APPRECIATE.... GREAT STATEMENT.........

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  6. AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 12:37 AM

    Lets do something then. what do you all suggest??

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  7. AAmirApril 29, 2011 at 6:48 PM

    thank you very much, may the coral player burn in hell (if there is a hell software)

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  8. AnonymousJune 1, 2011 at 3:03 PM

    i was almost fooled by this scam. thanks for the information!

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  9. AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 2:20 PM

    hi all!
    ive been reading into this for the past hour now and everything ive read points to this being a con and theres very little that can be done about it! however if we all share our findings im sure we will gain better insight! for example-
    i downed three films today,all from fenopy.com and all needed coral. the size of all three being the same = 742mb (a clue maybe? perhaps some base file with different names attached each time??)
    so far it would seem size and site are significant if not hugely coincidental!

    id also like to point out a partner site to fenopy (im sorry i dont remember and deleted the file) also had a similar exploit which directed you to "www.codecavil.com" for pretty much the same reason so AVOID this too!

    how can someone make money from a bootleg film/album like this? answer- they cant! thats theft against the big boys and not a few "pirates" for pence at a time! its just a scam!

    as i said if we all share it becomes less of a problem for us all! knowledge is power they say so we should all be armed. and on that note i hope someone with greater knowledge than i can find a solution to this once and for all!

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  10. Kartikey P PatelJune 20, 2011 at 11:35 PM

    Hi all,
    I downloaded one movie so called "bheja fry part 2" which was 698 mb. I downloaded this file from torrent site.

    Kartikey

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  11. AnishJune 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM

    i also downloaded one malayalam movie which is just released and of about 675MB. Finally it is also showing same problem not able to play with VLC and directed to go to "Download.coralplayer.com". Now i believe that it is a scam......

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  12. amarJune 21, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    i need some help as i have registered it with my bank account

    mt email id is amarjit314@gmail.com

    plz give some suggestion by which i can unsuscribe my account

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  13. JammyJune 22, 2011 at 1:01 AM

    Just go to your bank account, and remove the authorization from there. And if I were you, I would do it a the the earliest.

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  14. AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 12:07 AM

    Guys, whenever you download such fake movie, don't forget to put (-) negative comment for that particular torrent so others will get informed. Helping others will help us sometimes.

    Thanks

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  15. AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 2:52 PM

    Just downloaded Mr Poppers Penguin and it directed me to download coral player. What a scam indeed.

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  16. AnonymousJuly 4, 2011 at 8:43 PM

    I also downloaded a recently released movie from torrent.It also has the same problem

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  17. AnonymousJuly 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    I also downloaded latest release movie and it is also asking for Coral player.i wasted more than 2 days to download a movie and at last what the hell

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  18. nvsJuly 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM

    for downloading RIO it took one full night...in the morning when I opened it...its damn coral player....I thought it might be true coz the file size is 704 MB....and now I got it after going thru your lines that it is a scam.....should rate that kinda torrents negative....

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  19. AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM

    When u convert the file, which says need for coral player, converted file shows the real file size.
    I downloaded a file as 690Mb, after converting it turned as 914Kb.!!

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  20. AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    I also downloaded a recently released movie from torrent.It also has the same problem

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  21. AnonymousJuly 24, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    شكرا جدا

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  22. AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM

    Whenever you download a full movie file through torrents these days, especially if it is a much awaited dvdrip or such of a new movie, when you have downloaded alteast 20mb of the file, try to play it on VLC or GOM player. If the coralfucker screen appears, stop the download and dump the file. Don’t wait for the entire file to get sucked into your system.
    Will save you of the time and disappointment.

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  23. Jack SparrowJuly 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM

    always look for screenshots b4 dwnlding some movies.
    also look for comments frm ppl.
    if its OK with U, stick to piratebay.org, n33t.com, 1337.org from the torrent host sites available... HAPPY COMPUTING.....
    :-)

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  24. Jack SparrowJuly 28, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    sorry guys, itz h33t.com

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  25. AnonymousAugust 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM

    just the same problem here too guys.., downloaded a malayalam movie of 700mb, n just got fooled by it, but when i searched for coral player , i got a smal *zip file from meagashares.com which is about only 224kb, but i was exited, but then it was a virus,.! i spend last 2 hours searching for that bloody software,. thank god i found your blog.
    thank you very much, god bless ya...

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  26. AnonymousAugust 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    ya that is fake all i will suggest you to install rarplayer which can saw you torrent movies without download from site

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  27. AnonymousAugust 9, 2011 at 6:41 PM

    scam http://www.pcsoft.ro/coral-player-scam/

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  28. AnonymousAugust 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM

    Thanks for the info and warning .... I download all my fims and series from Bitcomet (Excellent Machine)

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  29. AnonymousAugust 27, 2011 at 10:30 AM

    thank you for the information. i was about to download coralplayer.

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  30. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    Whenever you make an online purchase from such a website create first a self cancelling virtual online credit card with a small sub limit. The card expires and then cannot be created again and billed further. If you have used your regular credit card, please report loss of card and get it blocked. Take a new card. Better to pay the charges for that rather than getting billed monthly for nothing.

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  31. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2011 at 5:39 AM

    thanks for that info. now i know that if vlc can't play it then it probably can't be played. i usually use vlc to preview incomplete movie downloads with no problems. so the next time a so called video file ask for another player i'll just cancel the torrent.

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  32. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    Thanks a lot for the info... Even i 2 downloaded Transformers (torrent file) and it gives the coralfucker screen when i try to play it in VLC.. WTF in scam....

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  33. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    I wasted my 4 days 2 download the movie...... But dat seems 2 be the fucking scam...... Who the fucker is posting dis type of torrent file. He won't success in life..... He will definitely be d son of a prostitute......

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  34. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2011 at 11:51 PM

    Coralplayer should be banned by all torrents sites.

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  35. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    Thanks guys, I'v been going through the same dam experiance for two weeks now.

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  36. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 7:46 AM

    Don't see the problem with our software . You shouldn't be downloading movies for free anyway .
    Just kidding guy's & gal's .
    No serious that is the feeling i get with crap like coral player & other nasties floating around torrent sites .
    That someone is sat there taking our cash & putting two fingers up at us at the same time !!

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  37. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    thanks for giving advice

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  38. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2011 at 6:18 AM

    People, people Coral Player IS a real program - I just used it to watch part of one of those 'scam' movies (~700mb, but cries for Coral Player when opened). I dunno what kind of black magic they are using, but when you load the 'scam' file in Coral Player, it redirects to a website that has exactly what the movie claimed to have in the first place - (i.e. whatever movie you downloaded, now you actually get to watch it).

    It's a lousy trick to get people to buy their player, and it's a CRAZY business practice to think people will pay a subscription for a movie player, but it IS a real program and it DOES play those files.

    -BC, setting the record straight

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  39. manprashantOctober 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Zindagi_Na_Milegi_Dobara_2011_Pre_DVDRip_XviD_RATi-[Fenopy.eu].torret

    Downloaded from Fenopy which requires coral player.

    Do not use this site at all.

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  40. AnonymousOctober 11, 2011 at 11:40 AM

    Fuck this muderfucker who does this coral sheet. i spend about 3days downloading conan and now am ask to download coral player, thanks you guys for updating me. if not i would have got my credit card harcked or something. we need to do something about this guys

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  41. AnonymousNovember 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM

    If you're using utorrent, you can use the stream function which enables you to see the first few seconds of a download. If it is the Coral Fucking player Shit, he drop the downoad immediately

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  42. Larry GagneNovember 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM

    What is this sh------t, looks like a scam,How to proceed and watch the downloaded movie?????. Some body has to do something.Its quite a dissapointment when you cant see your downloaded movie. frustrated

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  43. AnonymousNovember 11, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    SCAM nowhere to download beside the link given.
    does not come up in google search
    does not come up in download.com
    and so many movies can only play with that player
    must be a SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM

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  44. AnonymousNovember 12, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    Isn't this a doube standard for you all.. Downloading movies is piracy. That is theft. That coral player nonsense you are complaining about is just teaching you a lesson to go out and buy DVDs instead of stealing and breaking copyright..

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  45. AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 11:33 PM

    thanks dude that was gr8 info....it took me some time to download "limitless"...and all i got is a fucking ad of the coral player man.....bad trip dude...

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  46. AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 2:31 AM

    i have been puting coral playr in the comments box on most of the movies that ihave found that had the scam. my screen name on the torrentfunk is b5778b just so you know

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  47. AnonymousDecember 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM

    just downloaded immortals torrent what a scam i wanted to c what fellow torrent users said bout coral before downloading it so thanks

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  48. AnonymousDecember 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM

    stay away from coral player

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  49. AnonymousDecember 12, 2011 at 5:35 PM

    hey anonymous, Fuck Off!!!!!

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  51. AnonymousDecember 24, 2011 at 5:08 AM

    all the info i just read from this sack o' shit coral player scam really helped me. but what if you can't find any other working file of a particular movie, how can u go about finding a working version!!??

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  52. tomandnaomiDecember 26, 2011 at 11:54 PM

    OOPS...I almost went for it. Thanks guys and pass it on to those unsuspecting!

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    kult

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  54. AnonymousMarch 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM

    Thanks buddy I was almost about to download this sucker but thought i would adhere to safety first as I thought as much.

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  55. AnonymousApril 7, 2012 at 1:48 AM

    I agree it sucks we that can not afford to go and buy the movies or we find out that they don't have it. Well it makes it tough for us. Just watch the next thing will be they will hit music and other kinds of program downloads. It will only be a matter of time before they try and grab it all. Someone has to find a way to create a program to DISTROY THEM AND then post the new way to distroy it on the torrent sites so we can use it to.

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