Tuesday, September 04, 2007

 

Walking the Line

While we're complaining about social software spam, here's another one:

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Dear Rachel,

Someone researched your reputation on Rapleaf by searching "rachel@lisjobs.com".

To view (or update) your profile, check out:
http://www.rapleaf.com/pub/Rachel-Singer-Gordon

Even though your profile is incomplete, the person who searched you found some basic reputational information on you. At Rapleaf, you can find such information as age, location, history, social network links, and more on over 60 million people.

-Your friends at Rapleaf.com
www.rapleaf.com

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I got a strikingly similar message last week from yoName.com as well. To me, this completely crosses the line -- the fact that someone else has searched for my e-mail address doesn't give these sites permission to spam me in a thinly veiled attempt to drive traffic. Even though the idea behind these services is interesting, I won't be using them -- especially now that I know they will e-mail whoever I search for.

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# posted by Rachel @ 2:10 PM  
Comments:
I got this same spam! I so did my entire gmail contact list because I used upscoop. I wish I had never heard of upscoop or rapleaf.
# posted by Russell : 9/04/2007 3:42 PM
 
I use al of these sites pretty regularly (except rapleaf). I tend to use yoname the most. I do not mind the one time emails it send out because no one knows it's me searching for them and they only send out one email. I actually tested it by searching my email over and over again.

The other thing that's pretty cool on yoname is that they have a pretty good and consise web search feature. I'm so over google and yahoo.
# posted by Anonymous : 10/30/2007 4:01 PM
 
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