Man, you know the spammers are getting pretty good when they can manage to spoof the best and brightest. SocialMinder seemed like a good idea - manage all your contacts across all your social network profiles and your email.
So I got an email from Sam Sethi, the ex-TechCrunch UK editor, for whom I have a lot of time, inviting me to SocialMinder to enjoy all the benefits, blah blah blah.
Fortunately I left it aside until later. And in between a few other highly respected, unfortunate people who got fooled had managed to sign up for the “alpha” version, which led to their address books being sucked up and regurgitated in the kingdom of spamalot.
Sam has been apologising all afternoon via Twitter.
Bottom line: delete that email re SocialMinder.
This public service message was paid for by the Committee for Spammer Genocide.
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1 John // Nov 12, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Richard-
Thanks for your feedback. And, we are sorry that the “invite -a-friend” feature may have been unclear.
We take the security of our user’s data seriously, and endeavor to earn our users trust. Based on your note we have to say that the pages/explanation of what the invite-a-friend feature was doing wasnt as clear as it could be, and we have taken steps to clarify that.
Clearly given how connected and challenging it is to manage our networks/relationships, a service like SocialMinder could be very beneficial.
Thanks again for your insight and support-
John Adler
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