Comments on: Yaari Revisited

By: Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:11:17 +0000

I had a similar complaint from a friend last year. While I am not attracted to social networking sites, I decided to investigate. And then sent the following email to Prerna.

Yaari.com complaint

From: Rakesh Sharma
Sent: Sun 12/28/08 7:25 PM
To: feedback@yaari.com
Prerna -

I was investigating your website after complaints from a couple of friends.

On Sign Up, your website takes a user to a “Verify” page where it asks for the user’s hotmail/gmail password (which it should not). If a gullible users enters the password, your website sends out emails to everyone from the user’s address book, even if he doesn’t select any. (**none of the check boxes are checked**). In other words, you basically spam.

Your application design sucks and more than that, your shoddy work ethics. If you are based in the US, it is a matter of time before you are sued, unless you get your act together. And please don’t bother to respond with “Sorry, we were having application issues”.

In utter disgust,

Rakesh

By: snemax

snemax — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:57:26 +0000

Even I was duped.

Yaari is totally useless spam social networking. I feel like giving the maximum punishment to the CEO and the management involved.

How dare they violate my privacy. They sent emails to from any1 to every1 including my clients and professors.

By: Mohammad Keyhani

Mohammad Keyhani — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:03:05 +0000

Thanks for the great post Allan, I’ve been following this Yaari story since I was abused by it too. I wrote about this post of yours here:
http://mkaihani.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/latest-on-the-yaaricom-scam-and-lessons-learned/

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By: profy

profy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:31:50 +0000

Wow Allan, I did not know they even emailed you about this issue. Yaari is really a strange network with so many complains still published by people in comments on your blog post. In the future should they request you to do anything about the post, just feel free to send them my way for me to handle this – after the excellent review you published on Profy about them I don’t think you should really spend your time dealing with issues like this one.

P.S. Again, thank you for the great job with the review!