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Originally Posted by Chris W
if you do join, invitations are sent to everyone in your hotmail/ yahoo/ gmail address books, so it could be that you were in someone's address book and they have signed up.
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It just goes to show how lacklustre people are with the security of their passwords - to not only enter them along with their email addresses on a third party website, but to allow them to raid the address book too to send out email.
I wouldn't trust anyone else with my passwords/usernames let alone another organisation.
SMS.AC also uses this tactic to raid addressbooks and send out notices purporting to become from the person in question, but in reality they don't.