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19 Dec 2005, 12:11 AM
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Spymac asks free member to verify their account.
I receive a email from Spymac asks me to verify my account.
also can surf this website for detail. http://www.spymac.com/news/article.php?contentid=3772 |
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19 Dec 2005, 01:29 AM
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it looks like they're requiring a cell phone number so you can receive a text message with the secret code.
 but it appears it's just for the free webhosting. |
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19 Dec 2005, 02:11 AM
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They sent me this last night... I sent their support team an email... they can keep my account... either send them your cell number or pay $25. I don't think so... that cell phone number must be worth $25 to them.
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19 Dec 2005, 02:31 AM
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As idealist suggested above, it's only required for the free web hosting, and since I only use the email anyway, and even that only as a "spare" backup account which I only rarely log into, this isn't a particularly "big deal" to me. But I'm sure some may appreciate this warning, even though it doesn't seem to actually have anything to do with email and might therefore be technically "off topic" here.
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19 Dec 2005, 02:49 AM
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according to the spymac post linked above, it looks like the verification started out for email AND webhosting. But because of an uproar from users, they have changed it to verifying just for the free webhosting.
not a biggie for me because i didn't even know they had free webhosting, and i let the email expire months ago after having problems with it. but i would be very upset if i was using their webspace and they required me to pay $25 or give them my cell phone number. hmph!  |
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19 Dec 2005, 03:09 AM
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19 Dec 2005, 03:36 AM
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hmmm.....well according to the thread, it's supposed to expire after 30 days of not logging in. i guess you're special.
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19 Dec 2005, 03:39 AM
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The thing that bugged me was how they sent an email... I was confused at first since I thought it was spam. It looked like spam. I verified the links, then, without taking any chances, typed the url directly into my browser. Seems to me they could create problems by sending out these types of emails... Lets face it, if a user has not loggin for 6 months, it is obvious they are not using the system. Delete the account. |
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19 Dec 2005, 04:18 AM
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well maybe it's 30 days for the webhosting -- the discussion was a bit vague. 6 months seems pretty generous, though -- it seems like i was shut off before then, but i guess time flies when you're having fun!
 i never hung around spymac, but in skimming the forum, it seems there are a LOT of unhappy people on spymac. not just because of the cellphone thing, but other changes and slowness in upgrading and such. oh well. |
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19 Dec 2005, 07:39 AM
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That was when I joined and the last day I logged in. My next login was in November and I'm 100% sure of that. So maybe 4 months? I know what you mean about unhappy people... I only have spymac in case they actually get better. Doubt if they will, but just in case, you never know. Sometimes companies have great ideas but not the resources to pull them off.... I have it in my pda to login every month now... |
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20 Dec 2005, 04:43 AM
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20 Dec 2005, 06:14 AM
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yes, I'd be very curious....please let us know.
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20 Dec 2005, 06:22 AM
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i posted my cell number for the verification note , and they told me that an SMS has been sent to me , i tried every possible combination of area codes and cell number and i got nothing , any ideas ?
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20 Dec 2005, 05:40 PM
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20 Dec 2005, 05:52 PM
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select correct country code, then you just fill in what is the phone number (digits) (besides the country code) that someone call from overseas into "area code" and "phone number" blank space. In Singapore, there is no area code. So in first time, I let area code empty, fill all number in phone space, but it does not work. So I try fill the first 3 digits (numbers) of the phone number into "area code". the rest digits ( number) fill to "phone number". it works. |
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