Comments on: Viadeo - a (serious?) Xing competitor - using spam?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:09:23 +0000

I am NOT a member and yet somehow have a magical membership, perhaps from a past life. There is an option that I can “no longer receive email” from Viadeo, however, I have to sign in to use it. And since I don’t have a password (because I never ever joined) I can’t utilise it.

Numerous emails to ask them to REMOVE ME FROM THE VIADEO SPAM LIST have been ignored.

MESSAGE TO VIADEO “IF YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY THEN STOP YOUR IDIOTIC SPAMMING”

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:35 +0000

I’ve had a few spam invitations from viadeo over the last couple of months. I wouldn’t trust them with my data.

By: der-beweis » Blog Archive » Viadeo Spam

der-beweis » Blog Archive » Viadeo Spam — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:09:02 +0000

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By: ThomasG

ThomasG — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:07:57 +0000

I just googled for “viadeo spam” and your blog entry was ranked first. Today we received an invitation from a Stefan Fries (whom we do not know) to join viadeo.com. The email was sent to a info@… address which - as most addresses with “info” in it - is not a personal address. So, sorry Tonio, to me this is also spam. And Viadeo offers no obvious way to block addresses from receiving invitations. Clearly, that is something all serious social networks should offer.

By: Tania

Tania — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:12:20 +0000

Ok, I got the same “Martine Froy” e-mail. It is a spam, definitively.

By: Hitomi_LGL

Hitomi_LGL — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:02:06 +0000

Well, I came across this blog as I googled this same “Martine Froy”, whom I don’t know but from whom I just got an invitation to join this Viadeo. It seems very much like spam to me. And I’m not going and try to contact this Martine Froy, because like all these social and professional network platform, you’ve got to register before you can even start browsing through it. I don’t see why I should register to yet another one of these network just to figure out who she is. As for getting individual emails, you all know how easy this is. The fact that she had my personal email doesn’t mean that she got it from me or someone we would both know.

I hate that kind of agressive and hardly masked spamming…I’m certainly not going to join a network, which is managed by people using that kind of method. I’ll stick with LinkedIn and Facebook!

By: Markus Perdrizat

Markus Perdrizat — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:29:28 +0000

@Anonymous, funny you’d say that, because I got the exact same mail also from a Martine Froy I’ve never heard of…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:18:05 +0000

I got the same “invitation” from a “Martine Froy” I never heard of. And I got the same impression as you all: It’s a new wave of spam messages.

By: luc

luc — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:44:54 +0000

… exciting to observe the competition between social business networks. i don’t see linkedin as a serious german XING-competitor (maybe they launch their german version in 2009), but myCORNERS. ok, they don’t count a million users so far, but… let’s wait and see. offering the same features for free - i don’t refuse. and the network is available in german, french and english. cu on http://www.mycorners.com

By: Flavio

Flavio — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:32:04 +0000

I don’t think I am the only one:

http://www.olivierdedoncker.com/spam-viadeo/spam-viadeo.htm

http://www.viadeo.com/annonces/detailduneannonce/?adId=00217rdo66lq6s7a&redirect=%2Fannonces%2Fannoncestoutes%2Findex.jsp%3FpageNumber%3D1%26county%3D0%26keywords%3D%26sort%3D1%26subCategory%3D65700%26publication%3D-1