Comments on: Bad Yaari: Social spam isn’t okay

By: Rajesh Garg

Rajesh Garg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:56:53 +0000

Hi,

I went directlt to the CEO and got following response. She never admitted any guilt or tried to change their sneaky policies.

They are scumbags and destined to fail.

From: Prerna Gupta <prerna@yaari.com>
To: rgarg_1@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:11:33 PM
Subject: Explanation from Yaari

Dear Rajesh,

I just read the message you left me on Yaari. Please accept my sincere apologies for any miscommunication regarding our process. We have deleted your contacts from our databases, so they should receive no further emails from us. I would be happy to send an apology email to your friends, if you will pleas send me a csv list of the email addresses you would like me to contact.

Best,
Prerna

--
Prerna Gupta
Chief Executive Officer
Yaari.com

By: Rajesh Garg

Rajesh Garg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:27:36 +0000

By: Dave K

Dave K — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:17:04 +0000

I just signed up for this just because a former neighbor of mine did.
Now I want out
Does anyone know how to optout of this foolish thing?
I also made the mistake of giving my email password….
Help!……….
Dave

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:11:11 +0000

Everyone,
Are you all going to complain or are you going to DO SOMETHING?
Yaari's practices are not just unethical they are ILLEGAL.
They contravene the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/can...

1) Go to the FTC page http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
2) Click on “File a Complaint” (on the left column).
It's a bit slow so be patient.
3) Click on “FTC Complaint Assistant” (On the right)
4) Is your complaint concerning identity theft – NO (hit next)
5) Dissatisfaction with other Business Practices (hit next)
6) Select “Internet” and “Other Internet Practices” (hit next)
7) I have a complaint about my options (or lack of) for protecthing my privacy online. (you can also select option 1 if you have children in your email list). (hit next).
Do you know the name of the company (Yes) (hit next)
For the company details enter http://www.yaari.com. You can use Prerna@yaari.com for the email. (Just put zero dollars).
For Step 5, I put the following in the additional info
“This company is a social networking site. They contacted me by sending an invitation that impersonated the email identity of someone known to me. After signing up on their site http://www.yaari.com I found out that they take all of the addresses from my email address book and send invitation emails to each contact that claim to be from me. I believe that this practice contravenes the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.”

– Please don't just grumble. Make a difference: File a complaint with the FTC.
Tim

By: RM

RM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:39 +0000

I wish I had read this blog before I foolishly fell for this Yaari e-mail spam scam. Instead, because the invitation came from a friend I just went ahead with it. To it's credit, hotmail placed this in my junk folder but like an idiot I still went ahead with it