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A class action lawsuit claiming that MyLife.com is a scam can move ahead, a federal judge ruled last week.
Top Class Actions first told you about the MyLife.com class action lawsuit in February, which accuses the company behind Classmates.com of preying on new victims by rebranding itself as MyLife.com after losing a class action lawsuit last year.
Classmates.com was sued in 2008 for defrauding consumers out of money by using spam emails that falsely stated past acquaintances were trying to contact them, and then charging subscribers a fee to discover no one was trying to contact them at all.
Classmates.com settled the class action lawsuit last year for $9.5 million, but the people behind Classmates.com have continued the scam under the name MyLife.com, says the class action lawsuit.
According to the MyLife class action lawsuit, MyLife attracts subscribers by sending mass email solicitations saying that “someone” is searching for them, and then charging subscribers a fee to show an ultimately bogus list of names.
Sound familiar? That’s exactly what Classmates.com was accused of in its 2008 class action lawsuit.
The MyLife scam class action lawsuit also accuses the social networking site of hacking into subscribers’ computers and spamming contacts in their email address books with more solicitations.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken upheld the claim the MyLife’s initial email solicitations violated the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, saying “The plaintiffs have adequately pleaded that they were wold fake names and useless information, and that they were billed for a different subscription than the one they selected.”
Judge Wilken did, however, let Oak Venture Capital — the firm that provided MyLife with a $25 million bankroll — and six individual defendants off the hook because the “complaint does not explain what these defendants did to participate in the alleged scheme,” according to last week’s decision.
On Nov. 15, 2012, this particular MyLife.com lawsuit was dismissed. However, numerous other MyLife lawsuits have been filed since.
MyLife Lawsuit Alleges Cyber Extortion Scheme
Minnesota nail technician Allyson C. says a quick internet search brought her to MyLife.com where it states that she has been arrested and has criminal record. Both of which, the MyLife.com lawsuit claims, are untrue.
When the plaintiff contacted MyLife to dispute the criminal record, her requests were allegedly ignored and the false information stayed visible on the site.
According to the MyLife.com lawsuit, the true business behind MyLife appears to be a “classic extortion scheme whereby the company posts negative information online in the hope that individuals will ‘claim’ the page with the negative information by enrolling in a monthly plan costing between $13.95 and $16.95 per month.”
Allyson says the false information has damaged her reputation and her in-home business as many potential clients will do an internet search before scheduling an appointment for nail services and see a false criminal report.
The MyLife lawsuit further claims that the company intentionally posts inaccurate information to elicit payments from users who want to correct the false information on their page.
Allyson says MyLife.com’s conduct has caused her anxiety, anger and humiliation.
Do you have a story similar to what Allyson experienced? Leave a comment below to share.
The MyLife Lawsuit is Allyson C. v. MyLife.com, Case No. 0:19-cv-02056, in the Fourth District Court in the State of Minnesota.
UPDATE: The MyLife Lawsuit was dismissed on October 11, 2019.
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458 thoughts onMyLife.com Scam Class Action Lawsuit Moves Ahead
I would like to join the class action lawsuit against MyLife. I will monitor this to find out my recourses.
I too would like to join a Class Action Lawsuit against MyLife. They have incorrect information on me and I have called numbers of times to rectify this and the last time I was promised my entire profile would be taken down. This was several weeks ago and it’s not only there but the “reputation score”… whatever that is?! has dropped and is showing red flags for things I know my record does not have. When I waste my day and time calling to try to fix these outrageous inaccuracies, the hold queue takes over 30 minutes, then it usually disconnects. Extortion at its lightest. Immoral scum they are.
Please start a new suit against these criminals. MyLife is a scam of a lot of wrongful, liable info. They need to be held accountable!!
I called my life to remove my information. The person on the phone gave me a refrence number and said it will be be removed. Now, although you cannot search my name anymore, it comes up when you search my relatives.
The craziest thing about this site is that you can edit anybody information! You don’t even have to be signed in. I’m not sure if you people realize that.
I am most concerned about the information that they have on file for me. I see where CLASS ACTIONLawsuits have been filed and dropped against them. They need to be shut down.
How is it that I can be stalked and hacked, my house broken into , file a temporary restraining order & have 3 computers with my neighbors up address and the police won’t do anything! Then my stalker can literally go online find neighbors and all my relatives e en if I made my fb profile price and friends? I guess when the president or someone famous decides to sue mylife then it will be brought to lite but most likely not by an average citizen who pays taxes . I get we give some information up but what happened to the movement with “false news” and “me too “ I want in!
How is this allowed to continue!!!???
until there is a public outcry against Mylife.com and their Partners, the scammers will
get to have their way. People need to stop being afraid for the lack of knowledge to
come out in the name of Justice to take down these blatantly malicious offensive liars
call themselves business to do what ever it takes to make money by providing misleading and false information about any one and using the system to protect them.
I have never joined Mylife.com or created an account, but they have a profile on me. They are advertising that I am currently living in North Carolina, when it isn’t true.
They are advertising that they believe that I am 48% Mexican/Hispanic. I have no
or had not been convicted of any criminal activities, but they way they got it worded as though I am. They have determined my reputation score to be .70% as though it is true or should be. And the lies just goes on and on makes my heart dropped. That is pure defamation of character, slander, Libel and BS. These people
are putting out information of lies about private citizens and getting paid to do so with out any recourse. I believe it is just the matter of time before their fat is taken down because God is not afraid of man’s law. what he did through Moses, he will do it through some one daring and brave to take on the challenge against corrupt justice across the board. I am monitoring and keeping my notes before I take legal
action against Mylife.com because they had gone too far with lies. They won’t answer the phone after over a hour and longer wait listening to repeatedly messages when you call for questioning on profile they unknowingly created on you . They are award of these complaints and public trust they have defaulted. But yet they mark themselves as having high reputation give or take slandering people names to make money. There is a wrong and right way to make money, but not defamation of characters to get people to sign up on your subscriptions for making money. And charge them for all it worth to scam them and call it business ? etc.
Because they’re all scam artists. Politicians, judges, all corrupt. Corporate people are all corrupt and the politicians are in bed with them so they do whatever they want. The only time ANYTHING happens is if there’s enough public outcry and then they use a scape goat. Just like in the financial “crisis” they sacrificed a few people to slaughter, which for white collar criminals only means a few years in a cush jail.
I wonder how much that scam artist had to pay the judge?
The more important question is: why isn’t GOOGLE doing anything about this? Why is GOOGLE indexing this garbage and feeding it to people as the top result? What responsibility does GOOGLE have for promoting a scam like this? Both companies are horse s$%t if you ask me.
Because they’re all scam artists. Politicians, judges, all corrupt. Corporate people are all corrupt and the politicians are in bed with them so they do whatever they want. The only time ANYTHING happens is if there’s enough public outcry and then they use a scape goat. Just like in the financial “crisis” they sacrificed a few people to slaughter, which for white collar criminals only means a few years in a cush jail.
Please let me know if I have a case in this. A lot of information about me is not true and I am being stalked and harassed by collections from school loans and I don’t have school loans debts. I need to live in peace!!
I see there are a lot of complaints from 2017 and 2018….is this an old company that just resurfaced in the era of any thing a corporation wants to do will be ignored? Like all the scam phone calls AT&T and Verizon allow? When is the general public going to be heard?
I have the same issues with MyLife, instead of acting on my complaints they just doubled down. I get twice as many emails now threatening me with 7 people are looking for you, 1 person just left a negative review, you have a criminal record. Absolutely not one of these things is true. Not one.
I read about someone who looked for a job and kept getting turned down. He had been arrested, charges were dropped. However some company was running his mugshot, they never took it down. When he called, it was some ridiculous amount of money for them to ‘remove’ it. He paid, but wait, there was another one…he paid it. Then he realized, there are like a dozen websites in his area carrying this misinformation. Yes he was arrested, but ALL charges were dropped.
What corporations get away with these days is reprehensible! We are going right back to a time when giant corporations like PG&E didn’t care who got cancer with their waste, like Flint’s contaminated water, or MyLife’s robbing of unwitting users.
And to the person who said ‘they can’t get into your addresses’. WRONG BUCKO! I have received emails from people who never sent them and they contained a virus….how do you think they work without spreading?
I am contacting my attorney against MyLife….blatant lies. Of course, with today’s political climate….it will get a rubber stamp of approval!