Warning from Yahoo regarding Grouply Tuesday

No to Grouply:

FROM �eTHE YAHOO TEAM�f

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:
�gFirst, when a member joins, it automatically changes their primary
email address for the groups, giving them a @grouply.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�fs generating a lot of spam already.�h

In other words, information from a group can be made accessable 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.COM <http://grouply. 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 �gmass mailings�h (can be junk, can be porno) and send them to
anyone, and since it�fs 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 �gemagic2�� 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�ft have been from me.

Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called �gGROUPLY�h 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�ft 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.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



Have a great day!    
Terry




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