Some while ago I susbcribe to WAYN (Were Are You Now) social network, to test how it works. It's related to travel and leisure, free time. I have been there for a while, but recently I did not connect anymore due to business constrains.
Now I get that WAYN implemented a routine that take my contacts (from outlook or wherever else), and sent them an invitation to connect to my profile. Obviously the invitation is sent with my name in the header. This process happens with no action from my side, and without my awareness nor my explicit permission.
I discovered this behavior because one of such invitation has been sent to my secondary email address, here below the message (in italian, I usually use english for my contacts :-)
From: Massimo Brembilla [mailto:invitation@whereareyounow.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:11 AM
To: xxxxxxxxxx@aaa.bbbbbb.cc
Subject: Dove stai
Vorrei aggiungerti alla mia rete Travel & Lifestyle su WAYN
-Massimo
Questo è il collegamento:
http://www.wayn.com/waynfx.html?wci=link&id=1111&m=2222222&c=3333333333&fm_token=4444444444444444444444444444444
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Cos'è WAYN?
WAYN (Where Are You Now?) è un luogo d'incontro globale.
…..etc………etc…….
Te sender of the message is Mr. invitation@whereareyounow.net that was tagged as Massimo Brembilla --> outlook reports only the tag and not the "real" sender code, so the joke does works!! Every people that receive such message will say that it is a Massimo's message!
But, again, I never sent it.
I wrote to WAYN explain the throuble, and they confirmed the action performed. But hey was afraid I did not enjoy of such great feature! Without my intervention the tool is sending invitation messages expanding my network! They says it was made clear to me when I register and upload my contacts.
Well, i'm a bit confused: great feature or SPAM made with my name???
I think my conatcts are important for me and I don't want spam them.
Having someone that send mails in an uncontrolled way, it is not a good approach in my opinion. I shall those messages.
Massimo
Keywords: contacts, spam, wayn, feature
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