Yaari.com Online Scam
So, I get this email from a friend wanting me to join a new ’social network’ service named Yaari.com.
I tend to generally avoid such kind of mails. But I just clicked on the link which obviously threw me to a registration page.
I filled in all the relevant information and pressed submit.
Sadly, I landed on this page:
The absurd thing is that they would not let me continue till I give them my Gmail ID password! And I am sure the next step they would do is forward a mail to EVERYONE on my Gmail address book from ME asking all of those people to join the service.
F****ing Spammers. They call themselves the coolest site in India – created by Indian youth, for Indian youth. I call them the scum of the Internet.
October 16th, 2007 at 07:49 pm
You are right guys … this is a scam. I have contacted gmail, yahoo and hotmail informing them about this practice. I have asked for their help to prevent scams by rogue sites like yaari. This is what I asked from them -
Black list sites like yaari and do not send address book data to requests originating from their server. If they can not do this, at least limit the total number of requests originating from a given site. Only honor 5 or 10 requests on a given day or week.
Can all those who were fooled by yaari please send an e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@yahoo.com and abuse@hotmail.com and request the same ? Or something similar. We have to put an end to this madness.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Thanks for taking this up and reporting to the big three e-mail services. I have also reported it to ftc.gov - the federal trade commission.
Guess what happened to me … these guys hacked into my account and stole all the e-mail addresses. I had my 12 year old son’s e-mail address in the address book. Soon they use my e-mail address and send him an e-mail telling him “xxx is you yaar”
He thinks it is from me and signs up. And now they steal e-mail addresses of a bunch of kids from his address book and send e-mails to every one of them. Now there are a whole bunch of kids getting spam from these unscrupulous people.
These also do not leave your cell phones alone. Don’t be surprised if the cell phone bills of your kids start going through the roof.
October 31st, 2007 at 05:48 pm
I ll say no prob to get my password.But they are not sending me the verification code to my mobile.It is a scam !
February 12th, 2008 at 06:52 pm
How to exit fro Yaai, if I already did zhe sign in ??