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Bad Yaari: Social spam isn’t okay

Started by Ken Yeung · 1 year ago

So I get an e-mail today from one of my contacts in my GMail with the subject line: XXX sent you a friend request on Yaari… and so I decided to check it out. What’s Yaari you ask? Well I honestly don’t know myself. The website says that it’s a social networking sites for Indian […] ... Continue reading »

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  • RM

    1 year ago

    I wish I had read this blog before I foolishly fell for this Yaari e-mail spam scam. Instead, because the invitation came from a friend I just went ahead with it. To it's credit, hotmail placed this in my junk folder but like an idiot I still went ahead with it
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  • Tim

    11 months ago

    Everyone,
    Are you all going to complain or are you going to DO SOMETHING?
    Yaari's practices are not just unethical they are ILLEGAL.
    They contravene the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.
    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/can...

    1) Go to the FTC page http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
    2) Click on "File a Complaint" (on the left column).
    It's a bit slow so be patient.
    3) Click on "FTC Complaint Assistant" (On the right)
    4) Is your complaint concerning identity theft - NO (hit next)
    5) Dissatisfaction with other Business Practices (hit next)
    6) Select "Internet" and "Other Internet Practices" (hit next)
    7) I have a complaint about my options (or lack of) for protecthing my privacy online. (you can also select option 1 if you have children in your email list). (hit next).
    8) Do you know the name of the company (Yes) (hit next)
    For the company details enter www.yaari.com. You can use Prerna@yaari.com for the email. (Just put zero dollars).
    For Step 5, I put the following in the additional info
    "This company is a social networking site. They contacted me by sending an invitation that impersonated the email identity of someone known to me. After signing up on their site http://www.yaari.com I found out that they take all of the addresses from my email address book and send invitation emails to each contact that claim to be from me. I believe that this practice contravenes the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act."

    -- Please don't just grumble. Make a difference: File a complaint with the FTC.
    Tim
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  • Dave K

    8 months ago

    I just signed up for this just because a former neighbor of mine did.
    Now I want out
    Does anyone know how to optout of this foolish thing?
    I also made the mistake of giving my email password....
    Help!..........
    Dave
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  • Rajesh Garg

    5 months ago

    Hi,

    I went directlt to the CEO and got following response. She never admitted any guilt or tried to change their sneaky policies.

    They are scumbags and destined to fail.

    From: Prerna Gupta <prerna@yaari.com>
    To: rgarg_1@yahoo.com
    Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:11:33 PM
    Subject: Explanation from Yaari

    Dear Rajesh,

    I just read the message you left me on Yaari. Please accept my sincere apologies for any miscommunication regarding our process. We have deleted your contacts from our databases, so they should receive no further emails from us. I would be happy to send an apology email to your friends, if you will pleas send me a csv list of the email addresses you would like me to contact.

    Best,
    Prerna

    --
    Prerna Gupta
    Chief Executive Officer
    Yaari.com
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