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One of you, or I think it is one of you here has sent me an invitation to join something called "Grouply". My problem with the invitation and so many others is that they want access to my address book, and I feel that my privacy in that regard has been invaded enough.
Now days, I am wondering why I have an address book on my computer at all.
I would really like to talk to you, but I do not think that grouply is the correct medium.
Much peace
Khadijah Gwen
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Stay Away from Grouply
I've seen nothing but bad things/warnings about it (google it)
There is always Yahoo messenger, AIM, Windows Messenger, BC/Stardust chat rooms (which I tend to forget exist)
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I avoid all
I avoid all such social sites as potential security threats. My anti virus software regard them that way too. Often the invitation is generated by the site, not the person who may have innocently joined not realizing that it can send invitations purporting to be from them using the access to their address book. When you see it, just click delete without opening it, or mark it spam.
CaroL
CaroL
Might not even be real
It might not be a real person. I'm sure there is malware out there (trojans or similar) which transmit themselves from PC to PC by using people's address books.
It has been made harder for evil programs to do that recently with the belated security improvements to Windows, so the bad 'bots have to ask you for permission before they can lay their nasty little eggs.
Delete without opening if you see anything you don't absolutely recognise. Even if you do recognise the sender and open a message, be wary about opening any attachments that may have been piggy-backed in without the sender's knowledge.
Penny
Thank you.
Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
Khaduuj
Grouply
I don't have a Grouply account and I get messages that say I have a message or that an invitation is expiring. Anything I get from Grouply gets deleted unopened.
Mr. Ram
The reason Grouply wants
The reason Grouply wants access to your address book is so that it can send out those invites to everyone in it. Invites claiming to be from you. (Yes, the message you got was sent out by grouply, not by the person it claims to be from)
Even if it was legit (which I doubt) using it for its avowed purpose of letting you check all your yahoo groups in one place violates yahoos TOS.
And letting something like that have my ID and password is way riskier than I want to get.
There's a link somewhere in the message (not easy to spot) that'll take you to grouply's site and let you tell them to never send another invite to that email address.
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