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What about those people that are searching for their classmates and friends? Mylife is helpful to them.

MyLife membership is a total waste of money.
I signed up and after a few minutes on the web site I realized I had been taken. They have a NO REFUND POLICY. SO BUYER BEWARE.
It is not what it seems. The information they provide could easily be accessed for free on the internet.

mylife is a complete ripoff! they used to be reunion.com, which google shows to have countless negative reviews. I thought they charge only $5, entered cr card info, clicked “next” thinking i havent yet agree to charges. legitimate inernet vendors have you click a final “yes” before charging you. “next” brought me to terms which i did not agree to so i closed the page. while checking my bank statment they had dinged me $1, $59, $1 in seconds. numerous calls to their reps resulted in them being argumentative, hostile. i reported it my bank. then recontacted mylife to get my name removed from their listings.

I have to agree with everyone. It’s a lousy, user unfriendly site, they make you call them to delete your account (thsi should be ILLEGAL! You’ve paid for the service and you have to call during their business hours to cancel?!), and there’s little to no information on there. There is no option to hide your profile, change your username, or surf anonymously. All in all, it’s crap.

@G.Sprague
Horrible,they take ur money and tell u they will reconnect u with your friends.I sent email after email to my friend and nothing,they had his wrong email address.I just wonder if they even send the emails.I did a search for him and then I got an email saying he looked at my profile,didn’t happen.He had no idea I was even on there.

Troy Janisch :After deleting your mylife.com account, you’ll need to unsubscribe from their email list.
I’m still getting email blasts from Mylife.com — after deleting my mylife.com account…asking me to “Add mylife@mail.mylife.com to your address book or safe list.”
No Thanks! I hit “unsubscribe” and don’t expect to hear from them again.

VERY HORRIBLE SITE! MyLife emailed me with a message that a certain person was searching for me. Well, that person happened to be my DEAD fiancee, who passed away 5 months ago! I called their rep, and asked how this happened…….he put me on hold for 5 minutes, returned with a couple of flaky answers, never apologizing or even offering condolences. I am still in pain and grief, and receiving a message from a dead person via this shoddy site was like a kick in the gut.

Thank god I found this post. I answered an ad seeking Investigative Assistants and…oh god…sent them my resume…$%^&** They sent me a reply to go to a link and “have access to their search software” – MyLife, I didn’t click on their link but hell…I already sent them my resume so am probably doomed already.” If I had gone there and created a profile even more horrors would have occurred!!!

Wow. You people are really paranoid.
Don’t forget to wear your foil hats and fake beards when you leave your homes.
….loons.

@anonymous
If it really happened to them, IT AIN’T PARANOIA, “anonymous”.

@ anonymous:
My guess is you’re one of the founders of this totally bogus, set-up-for-phishermen site, anon…otherwise you would have
a) actually used a Name; and
b) been able to come up with some viable rebuttals to everyone else’s recounts of problems with the site in question.
Lastly- don’t be dissing loons…even they have more on the ball than you’re showing!

MyLife is a total scam. I deleted what little profile info I’s given them and canceled my account. No one uses that stupid site anyway. I only use Facebook. 90% of my high school and college friends use FB; no one uses MyLife. FB is free, as well as safer and better in every way!

mia :
MyLife is a total scam. I deleted what little profile info I’s given them and canceled my account. No one uses that stupid site anyway. I only use Facebook. 90% of my high school and college friends use FB; no one uses MyLife. FB is free, as well as safer and better in every way!

Correction/Typo: Above should read “info I’d given…”

@Dare

Everyone who is anyone is now on FB. If someone isn’t on FB, he/she certainly isn’t on MyLife!

I actually found an old friend that I couldn’t find anywhere else because she wasn’t on facebook, or myspace or any of the other networks and had a very common name. I found her listing and purchased her address and mailed her a letter. Now we are back in contact.

The records they are selling are public records. If you didn’t find them here, you could find them through other sources. If you want to fight the system, start yelling at Lexus Nexus (good luck btw)

Thinking there is some magical way to delete one record from one database and suddenly become un-findable is just plain naive at this point.

Blast I knew it. I received an email to join mylife from one of my contacts on Linkedin and I joined mylife. I don’t think she voluntarily asked me to join mylife.com. When i try to see her profile on mylife, it is not there. Damn you mylife.com I wasted my time with you.

No, we do NOT voluntarily ask people to join. When you open the e-mail, it collects your entire e-mail register and sends notices to everyone. This sucks!

for whatever reason, this will not allow me to create a profile so I can delete the picture they have of me up! I am very uncomfortable with this site using this – i authorized linked in and facebook to use my photo, not this random site, and it is not theirs to SELL –
it keeps saying “sorry, we cannot create your profile at this time” (It looks like i need to create one to access and delete what they are displaying without my consent.)
There is no contact information – email, phone, whatever, and if you do “whois.com” to find out the registered owner, you get a message saying this is one of the few sites that does not provide that information. i have never come across that before! i’m very upset.

Some stupid arguments really. First I tested mylife for manual/automatic sending and if I select manual they don’t send invites to all of my friends.

Second, take a look at quantcast.com enter mylife.com their primary population are OLD people who are trying to reconnect with friends then take a look at facebook most of their population are young people.

For those of you who wrote that you found 90%+ of your classmates online let me ask you how old are you? Below 30?

Why don’t you guys simple go there and try for yourself..god God’s sake do not listen to what others say.

Plus they have a reverse email tool there are sites like spokeo that charge you a lot for that. So Mylife is 80% worth it for the money.

However, they seem to have some negative reviews because of their forced continuity program…like always huh. You get charged on your credit card automatically and then you start bitching to everyone…lots of companies do this.

The site is worthless. You can create a profile for free, but you can’t do anything with it. You have to pay to be able to send an e-mail or find information about a friend.

I believe my husband bought it to delete contents with certain people on reunion.I saw him as Steven Colbert in his email there is a colleen colbert his special friend,everyone should delete their accts,they are HACKERS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I RECEIVED AN EMAIL INFORMING ME THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR ME. WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO THE MYLIFE.COM WEBSITE, I WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THERE ARE REASONS WHY I HAVE NOT NOR WILL I EVER PARTICIPATE WITH ANY WEBSITE THAT CHANNELS INFORMATION OF ME OR MY WHEREABOUTS TO ANYONE FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT IF THEY WERE A FRIEND AND NEEDED INFORMATION ABOUT ME, THEY WILL HAVE TO TALK TO ME DIRECT. I AM NOT A MEMBER OF MYLIFE, NOR HAVE I SOLICITED THE WEBSITE TO DO ANYTHING ON MY BEHALF. I AM REQUESTING NOW THAT YOU, MYLIFE.COM DELETE MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATABASE AND DISCONTINUE ANY EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUESTED. THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR EXPEDIENT RESPONSE IN THIS MATTER. LENORA R. SIMPSON

I received an email that someone was searching for me on here (which wasn’t true after I asked her about this). It emailed me at home and at work AND sent me a text message on my cellphone.

I’m trying to unsubscribe without signing up for this crap but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this! Shouldn’t this be illegal for them to contact you on your cellphone? Collection agencies have rules regarding this and I also have my phone on the Do Not Call registry.

@anonymous

Nice comment to make anonymosly – get paid by Mylife.com much?

Amanda you may have hit the jackpot and can help close this operation down. The Government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) completely redesigned their site in the past few months and have made it very user friendly to submit complaints. I was reading about their new policies when they evaluate a violation — AND THEY WILL LOOK INTO A SINGLE VIOLATION — and at the top of their list was the question ” is this operation organized in a way that will or could result in numerous scam-type violations?. Clearly these guys will be in trouble. Do it fast while the company still has money because I believe they are making violators pay $10,001 to each of the victims identified.(I know from 20 years in securities biz that number over 10k forces all private and public companies to report the details of such violations to their shareholders — then their balance sheet takes a hit because they have to set aside enough to cover anticipated future penalties (most of which go to the victims). Amazingly, something the gov’t actually appears to be executing quite well. Complain here and get your $10,000 while some is left! Good Luck, Tom

We can not unsubscribe eaither. Never intended to be on the site but someone sent us a request to join them Thought it was like FB. Never paid anything but want to quit recieveing the e-mails…what do we do?

@cj
You can stop receiving mylife.com emails by unsubscribing at http://www.mylife.com/viewNotificationSettings.do

I have not paid anything, but inadvertently gave access while creating a free membership in order to look up someone else. I thought I was creating a password for the account when in actuality I was giving them the password to my email account. (Stupidly, I used the same one.) Now they have created profiles for everyone in my email contact list.

Good luck trying to delete your own profile. The help section says to click the “Is This You?” link on your public profile, but no such link exists. You can unsubscribe from the free membership;, but that only means you have no way to access the info they are publishing about you. You would be locked out for good and unable to change or correct any info.

My tactic has been to edit my personal info so it reflects an incorrect name, birthdate, city/state, and to create a secondary email address to use so that at least my normal email address is not there.

There should be a law.

@al
PS: I just filed an FTC complaint

The my life bunch post data on people who are not consenting to anything such as age, family members, home cities. They are implying that all of these people have accounts when they are just data mining to get the info. Should be illegal. There should be a movement to attack these kind of sites and bring them down- Also pressure on IP providers who sell them services, as well as regulators.

@anonymous
It is unfortunate that so many people are completely ignorant of privacy concerns. Even legit companies and government organizations are overly casual with private data- and anyone who thinks that laws that allow collecting private data with only a little slap on the wrist for mishandling it will protect the individual…. keep dreaming. Do you think these creeps at mylife care about identity theft etc? NO, just making a buck from their scam.

@Lenora R. Simpson
ahhh.. this is not the mylife website! Complain to the FTC!

Seems thay have been siphoning data from classmates.com as they claim that they have my classmates.com account as a “user”.

@Dare
I tried to locate people for my high school reunion and I trusted MY LIFE to do as they promised and locate them and allow me to send an E-mail to those lost students. I sent one to myself to see how it worked. Instead of forwarding my message via E-mail they each received an invitation to join and they would not get my message unless they paid up before hand. They did not even get to know who sent the message without paying the fee. BIG Disappointment and a lot of wasted effort.

Not Sure what this is. Recd email (replied with an email)then had to pay to join. Do not even know if email was originally sent to me and email I replied to was sent. No other transactions took place.
No confirmation and no record of the emails???
They just want the info and the money? We had our reunion this past summer and have looked up numerous people through google, classmates, and neighbors.
So when I got the mylife email, I thought it was a return info. I assumed it legite. Better thing is if you like research, do not do it late at night, and do not pay any fees for a membership

I’m trying to figure out how they got the names of myself and immediate family members. I never signed up for an account nor do I think a family member has. I read through the FAQs and while it says one can delete one’s public profile, it does say any information they have is a matter of public record. So Effun What! I did not create an account so other people could find me. I’m not interested in other people finding me. Nonetheless, in order to delete the public profile, I have to login and click on some link and follow directions. Ok, so now I have to create an account to remove my public profile. That kinda like clicking a link in Phishing scam or an “subscribe” feature. Once you respond, you just validated your existence and whatever else Personally Identifiable Information revealed. Effun Jerks! Well, this issue is dead. Last post was 43 days ago. MyLife.com is safe and secure. Good night princess ….