online addressbook: can it be trusted?

[VJ]

Hello,

I just got an email from a friend (indirectly: it was an automated mail) to update my contact details on

http://www.ringo.com/

Apparently, it is a service similar to Plaxo, where each contact is responsible for his/her own information.

Can such services be trusted?
Where is the catch (it is free )?

Thanks!

Jörg

[High_Jumbllama]

I would not use it. You did not create the info. I get these all the time at work for business directories that were never contacted by anyone. I have no proof but I believe it is a scam. At the very least, ask your friend first.

[GNEP]

I've just had a similar one this morning from a friend using http://www.bebo.com/ and was wondering whether or not I wanted to put my details in...

[GNEP]

Oh look - check out the "about us" sections in both of the websites and they are the same company... and both VJ and I got a request this morning indepentantly I would say it's definitely some sort of trawling scam.

[lecter]

I also got an e-mail today from Bebo.com...ah well, 'tis easy to ignore

[VJ]

I visited the website, and there is a picture of that girl on it. So for it to be a 'random scam' seems to difficult: both a picture and her mailaddress AND link it to me seems to indicate that she has registered there...

That being said: I don't trust it because it is free. And to just enter email and mobile phone number on it... hmm...



Jörg

[Fluff]

What is worse is that bebo asks you for your hotmail address and password for access to your address book. Which i think is a bit suspicious

[KeiFront]

Also got an email to sign up at ringo last week, I didn't sign up, I read there privacy statement and decided I couldn't trust the company.
And what would I gain from it "absolutely nothing" so why sign up . Probably they are only trying to gather email adresses.