Here’s that screen – look how compelling it looks that you should give them your AOL password!: Using AOL as an example, when you first sign up for Flixster using an AOL email address, after you select a username and password, the very next screen prompts you for your AOL password! Oh sure, you enable them to do it – but clearly enough people are unaware of what they are doing that it’s causing a problem.įlixster is getting their AOL (and Hotmail, and Yahoo, and Gmail) passwords! 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 “from” you. We decided to investigate, and here is what we found: Then I got email from someone, a professional contact with an address at AOL, asking me (and everyone else in his address book) to please ignore the invitation to join Flixster which appeared to come from him but which, he said, had actually been sent by Flixster. It was coming not just to me, but to role accounts at our organization – for example These people had really contacted us for support at one time or another, but a generic role account would hardly be a friend to whom you would send an invitation. All the spam was coming from AOL and Hotmail accounts – real AOL and Hotmail accounts of real people, and 2. This note was sent via Flixster by John D to If you prefer not to receive emails like this, tell us here. Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP. The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported.
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