I had a similar problem with Yahoo 6 months ago. I thought I had deleted a yahoo account I used 15 years ago, but they "undeleted it for me without asking". I had a 15-year old weak password, so when it was hacked about a month later, spam was sent out to 2600 contacts (from 15 years ago) . I called Yahoo, but got some dude in India that told me I couldn't delete either the account or the contact list; but for an undisclosed price "he" could do it if I gave him control of my much newer computer. He hung up after I replied "fat chance". Fortunately I found the password for that past account, got in and replaced it with a new pswd, and finally after a lot of work figured out how to get rid of the extensive contact list. I NEVER let any site "download my contact list" and now I think I probably had some sort of hack or virus from 15 years ago that had to have come in through a strong company firewall, probably from a friend that also had a yahoo account, that let those yahoos suck in my contact list. Beware!
- Pete On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Charles Goldsmith via Texascavers wrote: I used linkedin for about 5 minutes, when they kept digging through my contacts list, even after I told them I didn't want them to, I deleted the account. I'd rather software not go pulling my contact lists without my permission. I agree it's a good tool for many professions and for networking, but no thanks. Charles [email protected] On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:02 AM, David via Texascavers <[email protected]> wrote: If you are using Linkedin, please check your contact list and look to see if CaveTex is one of your contacts, and delete it if you wish. Linkedin, is starting to p*ss me off. The developers can not see the forest for the trees. I have mentioned that before here. I see it as a great tool for self-employed people like me, but it has become way too intrusive and time consuming to manage. Feel free to add me to your Linkedin wish, if you wish to. I do not think it will let you, if you are using their free service. David Locklear _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected] | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected] | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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