"Share Your Experiences.Com" - anybody know anything

[Ian Barley]

I have had a couple of emails from the above claiming to be informational and letting me know that somebody is trying to "share" information about me.

I have visited the site and it has all the halmarks of an elaborate scam as far as I can see. Anybody here know anything about this site??

[Tyler Howell]

Ian,

Got a couple of the same trying to sell anti computer spy-ware. Delete, Delete,

[Aaron Koehl]

Put succinctly with a tinge of irony, "Don't fall for it, anonymous opinions aren't worth squat."
http://www.mit.edu/people/klund/files/shyexp.html

The irony, of course, is that that quote was anonymous. Here is a
more authoritative answer from snopes (an email/rumor debunking site):
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/wordofmouth.asp

(Word-Of-Mouth is the same as ShareYourExperiences)


They do use spam to generate traffic to their site.
http://www.joewein.de/sw/spam-syex.htm


Here is the website's press release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb124830.htm

[Ian Barley]

Thanks very much Aaron - you obviously did some research on my behalf. I had tried a google search but it came up with nothing incriminating.

I'm just glad that I didn't get suckered into paying up for membership. They are obviously preying on our natural insecurities. I do have to say that they put a lot of effort into building a convincing looking site.

Again - thanks for saving me from myself.

regards

Ian

[Aaron Koehl]

Your welcome. The service itself was probably a legitimate concept, but the usefulness? Probably wouldn't be very useful, and certainly not a pay service. They usually drive capital by selling mailing lists anyway.

On a slightly related note, there is a class of viruses we all deal with which employ a tactic called "social engineering", which plays on our human intuitions and tendencies. (e.g. All of the "RE: Thanks, let's meet again!" type email messages).