nwhyte: RapLeaf

Nicholas (

nwhyte) wrote,
@ 2007-09-05 07:50:00

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RapLeaf
Poll #1050365
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 75

Did you just get an email from RapLeaf?

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yes
75 (100.0%)

I got two, both to addresses which I don't use any more. Looks like someone in RapLeaf has badly screwed up.

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	bennmorland 2007-09-05 07:54 am UTC (link)
	Ditto. What's the story with this RapLeaf, anyhow? (Reply to this)

	white_hart 2007-09-05 07:57 am UTC (link)
	What is RapLeaf? I just assumed it was spam... (Reply to this)

	fjm 2007-09-05 08:01 am UTC (link)
	They are kindly telling me that my sites are illegitimate. (Reply to this)

	loveandgarbage 2007-09-05 08:01 am UTC (link)
	To my work account - I'm waiting to see if a message is forwarded from my former work account. (Reply to this)

	grahamsleight 2007-09-05 08:14 am UTC (link)
	Yes. Mine came to, and cited, a legitimate email address, seemingly grabbed from my Facebook profile. Their Wikipedia entry, especially the bit re "Upscoop", suggests that the bulk emailing may be a semi-intentional policy. (Reply to this)

	ang_grrr 2007-09-05 08:17 am UTC (link)
	Yes, one to work (presumably from facebook) and one to the address I use for my personal email that gets LJ comments etc. Not happy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ang_grrr 2007-09-05 09:29 am UTC (link)
	Ah. It's FLICKR they've got my personal email from. My work email does link to facebook and LJ but it's patsycat so HA! to them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

peteyoung
2007-09-05 08:24 am UTC (link)

I appear to have a profile there without even registering, and at the top of the page I can 'click here to claim this profile'. They have my age right too.

I have e-mailed them: "Please inform me where you accessed the information about me that enabled you to create an unwanted profile, and where you have also made that information publicly available without my consent."

Do Not Want, they can f/o.

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	redfiona99 2007-09-05 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	Could you tell me what response you get, if any, mostly because I want them to take my information down and I'm not sure how to get them to do that. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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butterbee, 2007-09-05 01:30 pm UTC (Expand)

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peteyoung, 2007-09-05 06:02 pm UTC (Expand)

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sevenorora, 2007-09-05 08:24 pm UTC (Expand)

	sabayone 2007-09-05 08:31 am UTC (link)
	Ditto to above. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sabayone 2007-09-05 08:44 am UTC (link)
	I have sent them a strongly worded email, although I doubt it will have any impact. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blackinkedwords 2007-09-05 08:35 am UTC (link)
	This has freaked me out so badly. I have a stalker-ish ex out there and this stupid thing matched my false identity to my real-life email and city and stuff. This is just so messed up. (Reply to this)

	ajshepherd 2007-09-05 08:36 am UTC (link)
	Got one of those this morning. I figured it was just some kind of phishing spam rubbish and filtered it. (Reply to this)

	nalsa 2007-09-05 08:38 am UTC (link)
	I'm in the "what the hell is rapleaf, although I didn't get any emails from them I had a look and discovered that there's a profile on there for me, who do these people think they are?" camp. What's the content of the email? (Reply to this) (Thread)

peteyoung
2007-09-05 08:55 am UTC (link)

Title: "You were searched on Rapleaf"

Content:

Someone researched your reputation on Rapleaf by searching [genuine e-mail address].

To view (or update) your profile, check out: [profile address]

Even though your profile is incomplete, the person who searched you found some basic reputational information on you. At Rapleaf, you can find such information as age, location, history, social network links, and more on over 60 million people.

-Your friends at Rapleaf.com

Given how they compile these profiles via other contacts, the bit about "someone researched your reputation" is little more than a barefaced lie.

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nalsa, 2007-09-05 09:17 am UTC (Expand)

	brisingamen 2007-09-05 08:40 am UTC (link)
	Goodness ... I feel almost slighted not to have received one. (Reply to this)

agirlnamedluna
2007-09-05 08:50 am UTC (link)

I received an email on 2 accounts: one for hotmail that I normally only give out here and the (new) email address I use for my comments on LJ. Coincidentally, the hotmail one is my username here, while the other is nothing alike.

I thought it was spam when I got it on one but now that I have the second one. It seems to me this is something illegitimate, but I did read something about a new site that was collecting data from internet users and made them accessible to everyone. It was not named Rapleaf, but I suspect that if one directory does it, others would follow (think friendster -> MySpace).

If you have any more info, I'd be glad to be informed! :)

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djm4
2007-09-05 08:59 am UTC (link)

Yes. Topmost 'Received:' header says:

Received: from mail.rapleaf.com ([208.96.16.213])
by mailgate.acedragon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD))
(envelope-from <reputation@rapleaf.com>)
id 1ISl6w-0006YY-Ed
for david@matthewman.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:59:26 +0100

208.96.16.213 is mail.rapleaf.com by both forward and reverse DNS, so if it's someone trying to forge spam from rapleaf, they've done a better than usual job.

I'm just suspicious. People forge spam from Sibelius daily, and I frequently have to calm down customers who think we've sold their addresses on.)

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	despotliz 2007-09-05 09:02 am UTC (link)
	I got an email, and the page they have for me links my real name to my Flickr username. As I have been pretty careful not to have my username linked to my real name for Google purposes, I will be annoyed if it starts coming up on searches. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	grahamsleight 2007-09-05 09:08 am UTC (link)
	I have been pretty careful not to have my username linked to my real name for Google purposes So we should just call you Pope Despot instead? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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	blue_condition 2007-09-05 09:19 am UTC (link)
	With any luck they'll be hounded off the net. Ideally, they'd be DDoS'ed off, because they sound like f**ktards who deserve it. (Reply to this)

	talvalin 2007-09-05 09:30 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I got one sent to my work email address. However, it's an old address as the company changed name a couple of years ago. No idea where they got it from, though at one point I used my work email for a public mailing list that published its archives online (Brin-L, for my sins). That'd be my first guess as I haven't used that email address for anything else. (Reply to this)

	redfiona99 2007-09-05 09:46 am UTC (link)
	Yes. And was deeply worried. They've only got my not-real name (this one) and it looks like they've got the info from either lj or hi5, which does not please me either. (Reply to this)

	miss_s_b 2007-09-05 09:53 am UTC (link)
	I got grabbed from facebook, I think. Bastards. (Reply to this)

birdsflying
2007-09-05 10:08 am UTC (link)

Bugger, made the mistake of checking whether they had my other public (I have one that is mostly related to how I use LJ, which they have. only links to lj. phew.) email as that account's spam trap is particularly spam heavy. They didn't but they do now because I got a screen that said something along the lines of 'oh, we haven't seen that email before. come back in a hour or so for more information.'

ARSE.

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	heleninwales 2007-09-06 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	What you just said. :( I hadn't even heard of Rapleaf, and having checked a few of my many email accounts, they didn't seem to have heard of me. Until I just went and put my email address in their search box. Bugger... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bopeepsheep 2007-09-05 10:28 am UTC (link)
	The only thing they seem to have for me is my first name (Grrr, but not exactly avoidable) and the fact that I use my email address. I'll be content if it stays that way. (Reply to this)

liberaliser
2007-09-05 11:47 am UTC (link)

If you register you can apparently make sure the info they have about you is not public (by changing your privacy settings). However, having done this I sent them an opt-out-and-delete-everything-please email. And changed my privacy settings on facebook.

What a deeply horrible idea. But it has done me the favour of making me think again about what information about me was publicly accessible online. If these idiots can do it, so can someone with more competence and more malice.

So they've done me a favour, but I'm still pissed off.

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	liberaliser 2007-09-05 11:48 am UTC (link)
	...and for what it's worth, Rapleaf have just completely screwed their own reputation, which is somehow pleasing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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frumiousb, 2007-09-05 12:39 pm UTC (Expand)

Me too

oceanclub
2007-09-05 11:57 am UTC (link)

Congrats, Nicholas - this thread is one of the first hits on Google Blog Search for Rapleaf. I got a spammy email too from them, annoying to a email account I keep private, off search engines, and purely for friends. Presumably some afriend searched for this address on Rapleaf, which led to Rapleaf then sending email. I'm very annoyed, and if they sell this email to spammers, I'm really going to have to pull someone's head off.

P.

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	Re: Me too frumiousb 2007-09-05 12:47 pm UTC (link)
	yep. if you search on an email, they create an account-- nobody should search on rapleaf for any reason. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I figured it was phishing, and maybe a virus bellatrys 2007-09-05 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	so I just deleted it without clicking. They're a real, legitimate site? (Reply to this)

	Oh hey, they have a blog! bellatrys 2007-09-05 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	And it has comments enabled, and you can put in fake email addresses to get them through! Not that I would suggest anyone do that, mind you. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: Oh hey, they have a blog! uitlander 2007-09-05 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	No, and I wouldn't possibly use it to tell them what I think of them and their tactics (also using a fake email addy) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)