posted July 25, 2010 09:28 PM         

I saw an add on tv for mylife and was a little surprised, as far as I knew Mylife used to be Reunion dot com.

I checked around and sure enough that scammer Reunion has metastasized as MyLife.

Years ago before I was aware I signed up to reunion. They were linked to that High School connect site that offers to let you find old classmates. Classmates dot com.

All of these are a big

If you don't read the fine print you are charged, if you do not cancel before the expiration you are charged. And the better buisness bureau of CA has mucho complaints that they do not do it in a timely manner. When I tried to get out of it -it took almost a year

They also wanted to charge me for removing my NAME, you see= if you cancel membership they still have the rights to use your initial subscription name unless you pay them to remove it.

I played hard ball with them and finally got them to waive the fee, and remove my name.

long story short- Mylife is Reunion- beware.
http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/just-say-no-to-mylifecom/
http://www.complaintsboard.com/bycompany/mylifecom-a123026.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/mylife_p2.html

posted July 26, 2010 01:49 PM         

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They also wanted to charge me for removing my NAME, you see= if you cancel membership they still have the rights to use your initial subscription name unless you pay them to remove it.

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posted July 26, 2010 05:02 PM         

from the first link:

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Everyone in my address book received an e-mail from me asking them to join MyLife. To each and every one of you, I apologize. Please, just delete it as the spam it is.

How that happened was, I was asked to write a review of a “new” social networking site, and so I had to ‘enroll’ and become a member.. which involves building my “profile”.. which involves importing “who I know” (aka “contacts”).

The site/service in question is called mylife, which appears to me to be a mashup between the professional Linkedin social networking site, and PeopleFinders Reunion, the “locate long lost friends” site.

Of course, you need to sign up, and of course, it’s “free to join”.

The first thing you’ll see is a full page ad for contact lenses (which you’ll need to find the teeny-tiny “no thanks” link). Then you’ll see another full-page ad.. and then you’ll be provided a form to fill in your personal details and build your MyLife “profile”. And you’ll be asked to import your contacts by providing your e-mail addresses and login passwords.

Please read that last sentence again.

Presuming you do so, and allow mylife to vacuum up your contact list (which is sent via unencrypted HTTP) it will then go through the Web and find any mention of them on the Web (such as, finding their Facebook page, Linkedin profile, etc.).

... David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times has accused social-networking site Reunion.com of abusing e-mail contacts. The company's aggressive marketing tactics require you to surrender your address list to join up, in most cases. The site then sends out invitations in your name to all your contacts.

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posted July 26, 2010 05:35 PM         

Almost my entire school is on there....................

posted July 26, 2010 06:02 PM         

and yes they will have the contacts. How do they get them? By using you.

What else do they use?

"Who is looking for you"

great tag as it reaches several levels of thought processes in society.