Don’t mess with Reunion.com, and especially reuion.com!
Here is the text of my last email to Reunion.com:
It appears that the emails you were sending and those from the spoofers have ceased.
Here is what I sent out to a few hundred of the people on my contact list in case they were getting the notices:
You may have received some emails purporting to be from me, inviting you to visit reuion.com and containing a supposed blog entry by me.
I did NOT send those emails, I do NOT have an account with reuion.com or Reunion.com ,
and I apologize for letting my personal information and possibly your email address get compromised.
DO NOT EVEN OPEN ANY EMAIL FROM reuion.com. That site is a spoof of a real social networking site called Reunion.com (note the ‘n’ in the middle of the word)
If you received one of these emails, it means that someone hacked my information from Reunion.com in an attempt to gather data on you or perhaps even to directly rip you off for money via credit card.
As soon as I found that the information I had entrusted to Reunion.com had been hacked, I closed my account with them, and notified their tech. support that they had been compromised. I’ve had a free account on classmates.com for a couple of years, and never had anything like this happen. I don’t know whether it’s lax security on Reunion.com’s part, or just pure chance, but I don’t need anything from them as much as I dislike spam and spoofing.
Again, if you received an email about me from reuion.com or Reunion.com, I apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused.
PS- My only real blog is at http://waynesl.wordpress.com/ and is a first venture into the use of a CMS, with an eye to using this software http://wordpress.org/ for web sites I am currently maintaining with other tools.
—WayneSL
After receiving an email from a friend inviting me, I joined Reunion.com on Jan 2, 2008 at 8:53 AM. I shared my GMAIL contact list with Reunion.com and began to build my profile, but then on Wed, Jan 9 at 3:22 PM a notice went out to dozens of my contacts (more likely hundreds, though not all responded) about my blog, and they were directed to your evil clone: reuion.com. I was appalled. As soon as I got the first query about my Reunion.com blog and the reuion site, I set to work researching the matter. I tried to log onto Reunion.com, but was getting timeouts. I suspected a Denial-Of-Service attack on your site. It may be that no new messages went out after that Wed, Jan 9 at 3:22 PM email, but they kept percolating through the system for over 24 hours, and I had dozens of inquiries. I conduct a great deal of business over the Internet, and maintain several email lists. I am very sensitive to internet privacy and security issues, spam, and public perceptions. Therefore, as soon as I was able to log on, I closed my Reunion.com account. A couple more emails percolated through the system, prompting the inquiry you responded to, but now the incident appears to be ended. The residual trauma will last a lot longer, because now my (and your) reputation with our correspondents on the net has been besmirched by the spoofing spamming phishers of reuion.com, and my trust in you to keep my personal data secure is gone. Good luck.—WayneSL
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–WayneSL
