July 27, 2007: It really is a shame someone would do this. I suspect there is a legitimate business to be made getting people back in touch with old friends, but greed seems to have gotten in the mix somehow. There are actually a few free alumni sites out there. None of them have been around as long/have as many members as Classmates, though.
I keep getting messages from these people (a local company, as it happens) and reminded that I have email from someone in my high school class.
Well, the sender’s name they cite is not one I know and am quite sure is bogus. But how to find out? I have to pay to read the message(?!), and I’m not likely to do that. So I just dropped my free account with them. Seems like a scam to me, and I’m not playing. More here.
[update] thanks for the followup comments from everyone below. if this a scam, let’s get the information out there.
[hey!] Tell me what you think of this idea?
I have been talking to a scammer from Nigeria, that posted the photo of another, took money out of my bank when I responded to the email, and how? I didn’t give any info to this person. I did look onto Romance Scammers.com and it says these people are funded by terrorists, and not to mess sith them.They befriend you, and try to make you ove them and take you for all you have, otherwise if you are unrecptive they can be very brutal, and threatening. It’s time that we all get smart and realize who exactly we are dealing with, and put a stop to it. If these websites don’t protect us then we need to boycott them!
I cancelled the premium account after 3 months. Then got a bill on my card that charged me another 39.00! they refuse to honor the cancellation!!!
I was getting alerts from another (business-oriented) networking site that my name was searched in other states where I’ve heard an “old friend” moved to recently So, I signed up at classmates.com for 3 months to see what happens… Thanks for the heads-up – I’ll be sure to cancel before the 3 months rate is re-newed. If nothing comes of this, oh well…
I was recently taken off your Website, however it is posted on Google and Iwas told by Google they cannot take it off their Website that Classmates.com has to take it off. Please do that ASAP. When someone goes on Google for instance for me and they press cache up pops my name and maiden name, that is what I want to have deleted from your Website ASAP! PLEASE!
Just a headsup: this isn’t classmates.com.