word-of-mouth.org
 

Have you folks ever heard of this site before?

I got this e-mail in my box this morning:

Word-of-Mouth.Org Report Awareness System

Word-of-Mouth.Org is obligated to inform you via email (if possible) that
a report has just been submitted about the person or persons associated
with this email address (my e-mail addy). *Please find a link to
the report below. The Word-of-Mouth.Org Report Awareness System will
continue to inform you when and if reports regarding this email address
are submitted in the future unless you add this email address to our Do
Not Email List and, in doing so, agree to give up any right you may or may
not have to be informed when reports are submitted in the future.

Word-of-Mouth.Org is a background research tool that allows users to
access the valuable information source known as "word-of-mouth" on an
International scale.

Do not reply to this email; it has been automatically generated.

(link to the report)

Word-of-Mouth.Org is an online meeting place where users from around the
world can perform background research on individuals and businesses using
the powerful information source known as "word-of-mouth". A user that has
had experience with or has opinions regarding an individual or business
will submit an "Identification Report" whose purpose is only to identify
the individual or business in question. Other users are then immediately
able to search through and review these "Identification Reports." When an
interesting report (typically regarding an individual or business that the
user knows) is found by a user, he/she may then begin to communicate with
the report author through our Anonymous Email System to learn the
experiences and opinions of the report author regarding the report
subject.

*Important! - Word-of-Mouth.Org "Identification Reports" are only for the
purpose of identifying the report subject. They do not contain
information additional to that which is viewable at no charge by any and
all users. "Identification Reports" do not contain fields into which
report authors can possibly enter any information aside from that which is
for the purpose of identification. "Identification Reports" do not
contain and cannot possibly contain any potentially defamatory information
and "Identification Reports" are not to be construed as positive or
negative.

If you decide to contact the report author through our Anonymous Email
System, do so by using the links that clearly appear in each report.

For additonal information regarding how our site works please our FAQ at -
http://Word-of-Mouth.Org/FAQ.asp

If you have any questions or comments please email us at -
http://www.Word-of-Mouth.Org/ContactUs.asp

Legal Disclaimer: Word-of-Mouth.Org is only a meeting place for its users.
Word-of-Mouth.Org has no control over the content of reports nor the
actions of its users. Reports found at Word-of-Mouth.Org should not be
construed as positive or negative. Use our Anonymous Email System to
contact report authors and find out what they know. Each report author
owns his/her reports as well as the pages on which said reports are
published.

My curiosity got the best of me, so I followed the link...and apparently 4 people have made "reports" about me. I suspect that there is a bit of spamscam involved here, but I found the site to be both interesting and disturbing.

well what did they say?

That's the thing...they don't really say anything. It's just generic shit like "I know this person" or "I have information to share." You can send an anonymous e-mail to whomever has submitted a report to find out what they said.

Fucking weird.

more like fucking useless.

I got the same spam. It sounds like a scam aimed at the paranoid and insecure. The Oh-no-someone-is-saying-something-about-me-behind-my-back worriers.

Eeek. "remember to report regularly" Eeek. run away.

Who knew I was paranoid?! Damnit! They're watching me again!!!

yes... yes we are... Nice pants, BTW

Aaaaahhh! Damn that Shepps! He bugged the computer!

You surely didn't think he just built that thing for you out of the kindness of his heart, do you?

Sounds like that goofy seven-degrees website. I'm seven degrees from Kevin Bacon! Woohoo!

One of our faculty members got a couple of these about a year ago.. she said the second one was nothing, like you describe, but the first one had some offensive comments about her alleged dating practices when she looked at it--but it disappeared when she went back to it later to show someone. We basically decided it was an email-address-harvesting scheme.

I deleted it. But since I get little spam (maybe 3/week) I did wonder what it was about.

Serriously, I get over 100 pieces of spam, a day, in my School account, and about 25 a day in my Hotmail account If i got it i'm sure i didn't think twice about deleting it.

The design of the site is so hard to look at, I can't believe it would be legitimate. I like to think legit sites are designed in a way that looks professional. I think, too, it is probably just for harvesting emails.

However, potential employers apparently don't need sites like this to check people out...

'Bitch Boss' Remark No Way to Win a Job

Hey <b>bmgb</b> check out this thread we talk alot about the quality required for a website to be sucksesfull.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2998