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Reunion.com is definitely a scam
by UTWoodsman - 18-1-09 7:53 In reply to: Is "Reunion.com" a scam? by PromisedLAN
I received reunion.com solicitation emails from two of my friends recently. In each case, I received multiple "Facebook" type emails purporting to be from my friend and requesting I confirm that I knew that person. When you follow the links, you learn they've already gathered whatever info they can on you from public sources and put it into a searchable database. What they want you to do is to confirm and update the info. They will not remove your info under any circumstances, and you can only request it not be displayed if you sign up for their premium service. I didn't sign up.

To make things worse, when I called my friends to tell them I wasn't going to sign up, I learned that neither of them had either, but that Reunion.com, or someone spoofing as Reunion.com, had compromised their address books and had been sending out solicitation emails unbeknownst to them. I suspect that if you even open the email they've confirmed your email address as valid, and if you sign up and offer up details of your contact info you're hosed.

Birthdayalarm.com is a similar scam, also invading address books.

There are reports that if you sign up for reunion.com that they will auto-renew you without your permission, and only allow you to cancel after paying a $5 fee.

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I hate to tell you, but you should be glad that registering with reunion.com didn't work for you!

Testimonials from different forums:

#1: <<Reunion.com makes it very easy to accidentally send invites to everyone in your address book. What I remember is I responded to an invite exactly like the one you show, set up an account and accessed my Yahoo address book. In tiny writing and a tiny check box is the choice to hand select who you want to invite. If you don’t check this, boom, everyone in your address book is sent an invite like the one above, PLUS this invite shows your current email address you are using for your newly set up Reunion.com account.>>

#2: <<Spamming aside, Reunion.com is absolute fraud. Before you sign up for their “Premium Membership”, they set up a fake profile of any person you’ve searched for. This is based on thumbnail information that’s already out there in the public domain. They lead you to believe this person has consciously joined Reunion.com and set up their profile and may be looking for you. Their alleged profile is grayed out and a pop up appears above it prompting you to sign up for the Premium Membership for $5 per month. Well, you will be billed, quite deceptively, $60 in one lump sum for an entire year.>>

#3: Another user was told that his profile had been seen on reunion.com, a profile which he never created. He checked it and sure enough, there it was, his birthday only being slightly off. Not only did it list all cities he ever resided in, but also a place where he stayed overnight a couple of times! He then checked the names of 3 of his friends who do not have accounts with reunion.com - all 3 of them had former places of residence listed and also lists of all their relatives, 2 of the accounts even had 1 photo each. If you would have registered with reunion.com, you would have even been able to see actual phone numbers and current postal addresses!

#4: When a member ran a check on his boss' name, in the list of relatives there was a name of a trust fund he apparently established.

#5: One user found reunion.com had a profile created in his name which he never asked for. He wanted to get his info removed, but when he checked the FAQ, he found that he would have had to supply his SS# to have himself removed. (More spying???)

#6: One user was told that his uncle tried to e-mail him - only that uncle had died in 1962 - powerful connections???

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/05...
http://www.rickconner.net/spamweb/spam_r...
http://www.intuitive.com/blog/reunioncom...