| Dating or Friend site scams.... beware
Posted: 12/26/2005 12:31:12 PM | i've run into this before, you check out a site (not this one) and as you sign up they ask for your email address (innocent so far) then further on they say sign in to your hotmail or yahoo or some other publice free email service from the page they put up... They may add a line like tell your friends about us or something... but as soon as you put your hotmail account and password you give them full access to your accout. everyone who has sent emails to you and all the addresses in your address book. They then instantly send out emails to all these people as if it is from you which lets them get past any spam filters or such and they have full access to any personal info you keep in your email account. bank passwords, other email passwords etc... and they don't say that they are going to do it or ask permission of it.
Do you think this should be allowed... I don't. Its invasion of privacy.
So if any site asks your for this info to sign in to your email account and put in your password from their service.....DON'T
Also if you ever get an email from anywhere that says sign into your account by clicking on the link they provide in the email.... DONT.. just go to the site yourself from the address bar of your browser. Any other method and you'll be giving away your passwords.
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| Dating or Friend site scams.... beware
Posted: 12/26/2005 5:04:44 PM | | I didn't sign up on the one that made me put up this post. I receive an email from a friend that was checking out the site and they were not aware that it sent out an email to all her friends. They should not be allowed to go into your email account without your permission, its that simple. | |
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| Dating or Friend site scams.... beware
Posted: 12/27/2005 9:43:10 PM | I didn't give out my password or ever have to any site, but a few times in signing up for something it would pop up a screen that sure looked like the real site.
And even if I did, that is not permission. Thats like saying when you let a stranger or salesman into your house then there allowed to dig through your papers. Thats a pretty dumb assumption. There's rules in our society, and these online sites break them all the time. Supporting them with statements like that just fuel the problem. But hey if you give me your account number i'm not going to drain your account, on the other hand I wouldn't trust you with mine. | |
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| Dating or Friend site scams.... beware
Posted: 1/19/2006 7:40:43 PM | "[Has anybody else signed up to something that asked for their email and password???? "]
Same thing happened to me like 6 months ago.The message was from a website saying that my cousin wanted me to add me as her friend,and all I had to do is sign in with my e-mail address and password...that was suspicious,so I didn't.
I sent an e-mail to my cousin telling her that I didn't accept her request because of the password thing,and since we both have the MSN IM we didn't need that(the extra website).Well...I never got a reply 
TO ALL OF YOU BE CAREFUL WITH THE "FRIENDS" SITES
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| Dating or Friend site scams.... beware
Posted: 1/19/2006 8:36:02 PM | | If you don't do this already, do it now. Create a "disposable" email address with yahoo or hotmail, do not use this address for anything but a receiver. When ever you are asked to provide an email address by a site you know nothing about use this email address. For those very honest people among us, you do not have to use a real name when opening this "disposable" account. If you find out the site you gave your "disposable" address is a site you really want to do business with you then change your default email with that site. If its a bogus site and you get swamped with unwanted email and spam. Delete the account and start a new one. | |
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