03-26-2007, 09:30 AM
Quote:Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from both friends and complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me?...
We decided to investigate, and here is what we found:
Once you join Flixster, Flixster commandeers your address book - your list of all of your personal contacts in your AOL (or Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail) address book - and sends out an invitation to join Flixster Âfrom you. Oh sure, you enable them to do it - but clearly enough people are unaware of what they are doing that itÂs causing a problem.
How?
Flixster is getting their AOL (and Hotmail, and Yahoo, and Gmail) passwords!...
full article: http://www.theinternetpatrol.com.nyud.ne...dress-book