Reunion.com It's a PHISHING scam, much worse than merely SPAM! Santa Monica California

I am a dual national and was not even living in USA for most of my life. A full family and then some used my social security number and got rentals, credit cards etc with my social security card and variations of my name.

I had to get a lawyer to fight it when I moved back a few years ago and then thought all was done. It had been some 10 years since the last use of this info as the credit had long since gone bad (and I was a mere teenager then on another continent!). Long story short my lawyer advised me to periodically check the internet and my credit reports.

IT WAS my understanding that Reunion.com was a voluntary "sign-up" program. IT IS NOT. They not only used names of people who used my social security card illegaly but listed them as my relatives. I called and explained this and also asked how would they possibly get this if they did not use third party databases and they refused to do anything to help. I urged them to contact the social security department, my lawyer, and the properties they had these people listed under--they refused.

Some Eastern European girl rudely discarded my complaint.

I am now trying to get E-trust to fix it and I WILL go to court if I have to.

I was going to sign up at Reunion.com as well. But I caught the part where it asks you to sign in to your Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. email account with your email account password so they can contact your list of contacts.

Unfortunately you freely gave Reunion.com your email password when you signed in to your email account from that page.

I am sorry this happened to you and it is a dirty rotten scamming trick if you aren't paying very close attention to what you are doing.

I agree about the fake profiles. It won't let you read a profile unless you join, but you can search profiles and what comes up, and you can partially see behind the box telling you that you need to join to actually read the profile is the sort of information that you can find places like PeopleSearch, etc, which also gives you partial information then requires you to pay a fee in hopes of getting the full information.

There is no gaurantee that the person you searched for has even placed a profile on Reunion.com. Chances are they haven't and you are just wasting your money.

Better to avoid Reunion.com. What a rip off.

Everything you say here is true,true,true!

I was curious to try this because there is a guy I have been trying to find since high school but I am very leery of identity theft since it happened to me once and it took years before the matter was resolved!

So I made up a fictitious name and submitted it with my high school and year of graduation just to see what would happen and it worked. It worked very,very well!

my mailbox contains a minimum of 15 SPAM MAILS PER DAY for the fictitious person.
I have written to them and told them to STOP sending the SPAM because the person never existed but it continues.

It is as bad as that e-harmony dating SCAM that keeps sending you spam for all these people who don't exist ( at least for relationships) and have no idea how their names got on the list because I managed to hunt down three of them. One was happily married, the other one was gay and the other one had been deceased for at least two years.

So I just zap them out since everytime I block the address, they figure out a way around it.

I HATE THESE PEOPLE. IT RIPS OFF MY TIME DELETING THEIR ****!