NOT recommending Grouply

[Katherine]

I don't know a thing about Grouply. Someone friended me. While I was going through Grouply's sign up process, apparently I wasn't paying close enough attention to the prompts and a bunch of friend requests went out from me unintentionally. It is affiliated through Yahoo somehow maybe. Dunno. I'm not unrecommending them either, although someone wrote me saying they recommend NOT using Grouply. I don't have an opinion except it seems to me their sign up process may make it so that you inadvertently friend everybody on your Yahoo groups. SOoooo annoying. I could swear I read before clicking but I may have missed something. Be careful. I am unsigning with them.

~Katherine

[Sharon Wallace]

Hmmm...I may have done the same thing. I hope not. I ended my session there, annoyed, but then got a welcome message from them. Grrr.

[Heather Greek]

good thing you said that. I was also friended and went to sign up but it failed...thankfully.

[Rebecca Allen]

It looked fun there for a second, but there are waaaay too many of those easy to miss functions. Now I can't figure out how to delete myself from them.

[Katherine]

Click "Settings" on the top right. There is a get rid of the groups from Grouply's listings button and underneath that is a faded but functional Delete button. I used both buttons. First the groups. Then the delete account button.

[Rebecca Allen]

Okay, grouply has my eyes crossing. What page are you looking at when you see a "settings" button?

Oh! I found it using a search function. White on white background is toooo sneaky. I don't trust Grouply!

[Katherine]

I deleted the Grouply account. Then I changed my Yahoo password. Pain in the rear.

[Robin CW]

Passing on a message about Grouply. The general consensus seems to be that this is a very intrusive program, and of course, Grouply denies it all.
> IDENTIFY THEFT AT 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 "mass
> mailings" (can be junk, can be porn) 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
> "amystica3"
> 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 would NOT have
> been from
> me.
>
> Again, IF YOU HAVE JOINED THIS GROUP called "GROUPLY" 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't make a difference (but I think you
> will want
> to then possibly
> rejoin) but you DO NEED TO 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, some groups are removing all members with
> a email
> grouply.com.
> 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.
> hope you understand what is happening - and will take precautions to
> protect your Yahoo ID

[Katherine]

Robin, thanks for that info. Gillian gave me some good info as well. What she said was similar to your info overall with a few different details.

Question: Do you know if after you have changed your Yahoo password, is it then possible for them to still be able to hack into your other email addys and send things as though you are mailing stuff out?

I want to do all I possibly can to protect my IDs.