A Warning!!! Please Read!!!

[Guest guest]

Got this email from another group I am in. I think it is something

you should read. Especially if you have joined grouply.com

 

 

Warning about Grouply.Com

 

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 FYI.

 

This is what happens when you join:

 

" First, when a member joins, it automatically changes their primary

email address for the groups, giveing 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's generating a lot of spam already. "

 

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

 

There is a message going out to different advertising

and suggesting that you join a new group called GROUPLY. This group

claims to help manage all your 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 ID and password to

post " mass mailings " (can be junk, can be porno) and send them to

anyone, and since it's 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 " emagic2 " 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't have been from me.

 

Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called " GROUPLY " IMMEDIATELY

leave Grouply. Then go into your account at:

http://groups. / mygroups and change your password. Some

groups have posted that this will help. Unsubbing from that group

won't make a difference (but I think you will want to) so change your

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 emails, any emails listed

in your and can mail as you in and out of the

groups.

 

I hope you understand what is happening and will take precautions to

protect your ID.

 

Love and Light...

 

Tom

[Guest guest]

Thanks for this. I had joined grouply, but didn't like the change in my

extension on my email and I immediately left it. I didn't think about changing

my password, but I'm in the process now.

 

Blessings,

Bobbi

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I joined grouply, then unjoined, too. But I've had a conversation with

one of their tech reps and this is a huge misunderstanding fueled by

the misinformation of the post that is appearing in many of the

forums. Please visit grouply's website for their rebuttal and for

further information. They are not fishers nor are they spammers and

they are very distressed at the information flying around about them.

I gave them practical feedback about the program itself and

improvements I'd like to see before I try them again.

 

http://blog.grouply.com/protect

 

jayne