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I won't speak for the parent, but, some people have been know to use Virtual Machine that pretend to be a "Friend" and take advantage of Dropbox's customer acqu

I won't speak for the parent, but, some people have been know to use Virtual Machine that pretend to be a "Friend" and take advantage of Dropbox's customer acquisition technique.

JoshGlazebrook 13y ago
This works. They use your MAC address of your network adapter to differentiate referrals.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  No they don't; I've referred multiple times from the same machine using different users.
frm1001xplrr 13y ago
In mid 2013 I signed up 22 referred accounts in a VM box for a family member with a newly created Dropbox account. Three months later all 22 inactive accounts were removed, and the extra storage was gone too. I did it in 2011 as well for my own account and still have the extra storage. I've since upgraded though. Even 15GB is peanuts today...