Online address books - very annoying!

[Venusia]

I have a friend who signed up with Ringo and I got sent an automatic email asking me to input my coordinates. I'm not too crazy about letting these sites have my contact details in the first place, but it's the second email she sends me and I don't want to look like I'm snubbing her so I filled out the form. Now it turns out that filling that form signed me up with Ringo, and if I unsubscribe, then my contacts disappear from their network and my friend can't access them anymore. I find that such a sneaky business model. I think I'll just email her my contacts and unsubscribe from that site, god knows I don't need more spam.

[MilkyWind]

most of these online address books and stuff are either scams are some sort of hiden pyramid scheme. Personally I would keep clear of all of them.

[UrbanPoet]

Nah.. its just a way to get your emails so they can sell them to spam companies.

[Wildfire]

I find Sms.ca sends me tons of email requests for adding me, from people I know, but I doubt it's them requesting it constantly is it?
It's really annoying, so I have avoided adding myself yet, figure I'll get spam crap on my cellphone, if I give in.

[Evil Techie]

ive asked my friends that i got SMC emails for

they all said they didnt send any of those nor did they input my emails anywhere

i think there is some virus or trojan involved to dig out their address books from hotmail

[Nyte]

Actually, it works like this.

When you sign up, it will ask you for your MSN (hotmail), Yahoo, or whatever account, which it then logs on and grabs everyone on your list. It then just keeps sending emails to those people asking them to sign up from you. I found this out the hard way.

[aevol]

Actually, it works like this.

When you sign up, it will ask you for your MSN (hotmail), Yahoo, or whatever account, which it then logs on and grabs everyone on your list. It then just keeps sending emails to those people asking them to sign up from you. I found this out the hard way.

So that is how it works. I got a 4th request from a sms. demanding I enter my info. Making me feel that I don't care for my friend.

[Nyte]

So that is how it works. I got a 4th request from a sms. demanding I enter my info. Making me feel that I don't care for my friend.

Yup, thats exactly what happened with me, I had so many requests from people, and many of them multiple times, so I decided to give in. (The MSN list thing worked well for Hi5, so I figured why not). Bad idea.

[Venusia]

I didn't realise that these messages are sent automatically. I filled out the form, but left blank the space where they asked me to choose a Ringo password.

Then when I pressed enter, my yahoo email was there with a request for my password. Uh, no thanks! Red flags going up everywhere.

When I checked my email account I found that I had been registered for Ringo anyway, and assigned a numerical password instead. I unsubscribed, but I'm sure my personal info is still stored on their servers. :mad:

[hot_potato]

Yeah, talk about evil.. I get these at work and subscribe to them - good thing it's not my own personal e-mail address, so I don't really care about it.