A Warning From Yahoo about Grouply dot com

[Paolo]

Very Important. Please read.

WARNING ABOUT Grouply dot com

This is a new site which advertises they can make accessing your

groups faster and easier. Most of us are too seasoned to fall for

something like this, but I am posting this as CYA.

This is what happens when you join:

"First, when a member joins, it automatically changes their

primary email address for the groups, giving them a "at grouply dot com"

extension.

This is being done unaware to those who are joining.

Secondly, members who join the grouply website are having to

give their member ID and password. This opens up a security issue

for those members.

Thirdly, once a member joins grouply, it opens access to the

files and posts of each group to the grouply website.

Grouply staff can then access these files. If they get hacked,

then it opens the doors to the groups getting hacked as well. It has

also been reported that it's generating a lot of spam already."

In other words, information from a group can be made accessible

to everyone, and massive amounts of spam with your email address

can be generated.

The following information tells you the steps which needed to be

taken if someone has joined Grouply.com

IDENTIFY THEFT AT "grouply dot com":

There is a message going out to different Yahoo Groups

advertising and suggesting that you join a new group called

GROUPLY. This group claims to help manage all your Yahoo groups and

you will get a summary, at the end of the day, telling you what is

going on in all your groups.

IF YOU JOIN THIS GROUP, they use your Yahoo ID and password to

post "mass mailings" (can be junk, can be porno) and send them to

anyone, and since it's YOUR ID they are using, others will think it

is coming from you.

For instance, you could get an email CLAIMING that it came from

"some-group" Yahoo group and it really is not from this group. I could

get an email, with this mass mailing, claiming it came from me, and

it wouldn't have been from me.

Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called "GROUPLY"

IMMEDIATELY leave Grouply. Then go into your account at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups and change your password. Some

groups have posted that this will help.

Unsubbing from that group won't make a difference (but I think

you will want to) so change your Yahoo Password.

By joining this group you have also exposed all your groups,

group members and group leaders to hacking of their emails and group

information.

Because of this problem, all members with a email 'grouply dot com' are being removed from the affected groups. This is the only way to

protect all the members.

This is how Identity theft gets going. They now have your real

email, your yahoo emails, any emails listed in your yahoo group and

can mail as you in and out of the yahoo groups.

I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautions to

protect your Yahoo ID.

Thanks;

The Yahoo Team

For the record, anyone registering new here with a "grouply" email will not be registered/accepted.

Paolo

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

Thankyou for this warning. I have already received many "grouply invites" and just deleted them, but if I had not read this warning, I may very well have taken the bait.

[amahl_shukup (imported)]

Very Important. Please read.

WARNING ABOUT Grouply dot com

Paolo[/COLOR]

Yeah, I got several invitations to join that, and then as I started to sign up it asked me for my Yahoo ID and password. Ri-i-i-i-ight....sure thing, let me just give you all that stuff, I trust you...you're from the Internet right? Please say "hi" to Al Gore for me. No, I backed out of the page and never completed the join routine. So now I feel vindicated with your warning, thanks.

[Losethem (imported)]

And people wonder why I use a throwaway e-mail address when I browse groups. I never send personally identifiable information on the Internet.

Has anyone replied to their Nigerian friend needing help to get $20-million out of the country?

[Paolo]

You know, I set up a dummy account with a person I know at the bank, put $1 in it...and it's still got $1 in it...

Damn...where IS that guy anyway???

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I was going to create my own group on Yahoo called Father Hubard aka Paolo's Adoption Place. It would announce to all that Paolo will be accepting kids from all over America

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I was going to create my own group on Yahoo called Father Hubard aka Paolo's Adoption Place. It would announce to all that Paolo will be accepting kids from all over America

Your OJT will be vital for my new group where I adopt attractive women from all over the world - providing they can bring assetts to the deal. You can contact me at

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Your OJT will be vital for my new group where I adopt attractive women from all over the world - providing they can bring assetts to the deal. You can contact me at

Ah Arab Nights, we think alike