MyLife portrays itself as some sort of tool where you can supposedly discover “who’s searching for you”. I believe that is very misleading to say the least.
MyLife.com is actually in the midst of a lawsuit in California. Click HERE to download the PDF court document for details. - (It’s a good read)
MyLife.com is the new name for Classmates.com, Reunion.com, and Wink.com . Those of you who were on the internet years ago will remember those annoying image ads for Classmates.com.
Utilizing the concept that “someone is looking for you,” in their advertisements is how they attempt to lure people to sign up. After someone signs up for free, they discover that you must pay for a monthly membership to even see “who’s searching for you”. One month starts out at $13.95.
Lets do a search on MyLife shall we….oh take a look at these quality results!
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It has been reported that they have been accused of over billing people by substantial amounts after signing up. They have also been accused of hosting a database of fake names which are used as “people” that have been “searching for you.”
In my opinion (of course), MyLife.com is an absolute worthless ripoff website, and a piece of complete and utter junk. The purpose of the website is not clear to the consumer which is a dead giveaway.
I took this excerpt from the court document (link above):
RIP OFF. STAY AWAY. This website emailed me that 41 people were looking for me. I have a very unusual name. I went online and clicked to pay $7.95 to see the names. mylife promptly debited my card for almost $100.00. The “41 people” were NO ONE that I have ever heard of and they would not be looking for me by accident with the unusual name I have. This is a complete SCAM.
If you would like to read more, I have compiled several links to other information related to MyLife:
February 1st, 2012 on 3:37 pm
I agree with you completely! I’m having trouble removing my account that I didn’t even put on MyLife.com. Apparently, it was already created by either them (MyLife) or someone else and details quite a bit of personal data including my family members, their approx. ages, where they’ve lived, where I’ve lived and currently live, etc.
When I politely emailed them to please remove (called “opting out”), they replied within a week or so and said that they would do so. It’s been a few months and my information is still there. In addition, I’ve noticed a few additional accounts with my name have been created. My name is *very* unique and this really bothers me. Apparently, they say that it’s public information. How else can we remove this information? A lawsuit, I’m afraid, will not be of much help and will cost more money than it’s worth!
February 1st, 2012 on 11:32 pm
My guess is they probably grabbed it off Facebook. A lot of sites do what’s called “scrapping”. Basically scrape through all the profiles on Facebook and grab the information and store it in a database. I would make sure any social networking accounts you have are set to private.