Reunion.Com Spam Is Terrible

Reunion.Com spam was the likely culprit if your internet connection acted slow yesterday.  Reunion.Com provided a perfect example of how to ruin your internet business reputation.  Not only did they email everyone in all of my address books in a sneaky way, they didn't even provide the information that I initially responded to.

The email from Reunion.Com arrived innocently enough.  "Someone from Auburn, ME is trying to contact you" or something like that.  I was at work, and so of course excited for a diversion, and quickly clicked on the email to find out which long-lost classmate it would be.  I get to the site and I have to register first.  I normally would register with my special spam email account used for online form signups.  However, the invitation had come to my primary email, so I was stuck using that account to learn who was looking for me.

This is where Reunion.Com got slimy.  As part of the registration process, they went through my entire address book.  I had people from work quizzing me "You are looking for me on Reunion.Com?"  My phone buzzed with a text that I was looking for myself on Reunion.Com!

At this point the Reunion.Com registration process spread like a true virus.  I kept getting email back from other people's address book's requesting reunions at their site.  I emailed the website giving them hell...it made me feel better but I doubt it will help any.

If any publicity is good publicity then Reunion.Com achieved its goal.   Because everyone was talking about how much the site sucks.  Slimy web business practices of email spamming leave me determined to never visit that site again.

Comments

[Tom L]

I think I got it on three different e-mail addresses from you. Then this morning Jon G must have clicked on it because I got it twice from him.

Are you still not on twitter?

[Noonan]

I got it on three different email addresses too.

I avoid those like the plague.

[Chris O'Connor]

So that explains it...

Go Red Eddies, Go Falcons, Go St. Louis/ASLL...I'm so confused. Lot's of former DeGroovy linkages from my younger days.

[Reggie]

I saw the Address Book feature on Reunion and didn't deal with it by clicking the opt-out link. No big deal.

I am always careful to read what any site wants to do with my personal Address Book.

[Leigh Richards]

I also responded to an "innocent" email saying someone was trying to reach me. As a reunion is taking place soon for a band I was in while in the military, it seemed legit. NOW however I find that reunion.com has spammed everyone in my email address book.

I used an email account I rarely use, however I did have a few contacts listed. SOOO.. Let's all play reunion's game. 1. Report them to ic3.org as an internet scam. 2. Contact them by phone at their phone number (888) 704-1900. If their lines are tied up, just leave your phone off the hook and I'm sure they'll answer when they get a free moment. 3. Email them at their customer service address support@reunion.com, their business development address bizdev@reunion.com, and their PR address pr@reunion.com. 4. And oh by the way, they're worth the price of a stamp to you, their physical address is: Reunion.com
2118 Wilshire Blvd. Box 1008
Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784

Let's ALL email again and again until we get some answers and action, or until they say "uncle". And don't be shy, send an email to everyone in your address books who received the lovely free email from reunion.com. Tell everyone in your contact list that reunion.com is a scam AND ask EACH email contact send emails and and postal correspondence to reunion.com also.

Let's see how reunion.com enjoys correspondence about how we are all being scammed. Just use an email account that you can afford to "waste" that has no contacts in your address books, except for of course the ones listed above at reunion.com...

How about it fellow computer users who have been scammed? Ready, set, GO!