A Warning From Yahoo about Grouply dot com
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:30 am
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
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
