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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
My life says I’m related to people that I don’t know. How are they allowed to get away with posting false, slanderous info and then charge YOU to correct it? This crap site makes it look like everyone has court/criminal actions and it couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m retired military and had a TS clearance the whole time, I look like a loser on their site with some low review/rating. How are they allowed to do this? I filed a BBB complaint and I’d like to join a class action against these losers.
You would like to sue too. But haven’t the funds for a lawyer, plus these con artists keep getting the cases dismissed.
It’s going to take a smart lawyer to shut them down.
They sent me an email & I checked my free profile. Most of my info is outdated, or wrong, but they did add my son!
Thankfully, it was only one. When I checked his free profile they got his race, religion, and birthday wrong! This kind of information could hurt him in getting work, loans, etc! Especially, when people think this crooked site is legit!
MyLife is an extortion scheme.
How do we join the class action Lawsuit? I would like to be added to the list but I am not sure that this is the place to do it.
99 percent of the people I know are cited on My Life as have a Criminal offense.
Call them and demand your information be removed. Refuse to verify anything on the site.
They will try and sell you their services to ‘process’ the information
I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN CLASS ACTION AGINST MYLIFE! I HAVE WAY TO MANY FALSE EMAIL SOLICITATIONS FROM THEM. Several times throughout years I did trial only to discover INFORMATION WAS FALSE AND MISLEADING! Even with paid subscription the check on myself had wrong information and I was charged . i told them stop contacting and remove however I still get about three solicitations a week. I deleted over a thousand emails however upon checking this goes back to 7/2011 and i still have over five hundred saved.
I would like to join the class action law suit after finding MY CHILDRENS PICTURES being used. My husband nor I hve ever signed up for this site.. Was stumbled on by a friend and immediately informed me.. when contacting the company wanted educate me on what was on the internet and then for me to pay them $50 to remove the picture and information for my husband and another 50 to have mine removed. My ChildrenS Pictures!!!!!!
Please add me to the class action lawsuit because I do not have a criminal record, the family members and associates listed are not my family members and associates, my annual income is misstated and the past addresses are incorrect. I also believe the reputation score shown is a cause for a personal defamation of character lawsuit vs mylife.com.
Please add me to the class action lawsuit. When somebody looks up my name Mylife.com indicates that I have criminal background, which is not true. I’m a teacher, and that false information can potentially ruin my career.
I’d like to be added to this class action lawsuit
My life has fake information about me. I do not have a criminal background and nor do i have a bad credit profile. I know none of the people they have . Fake NEWS
They have so much information that is not accurate. I hope companies and individuals alike do not rely on their information when making any kind of decisions. I want to be part of this suit. This is technically defamation of character.
its not inaccurate information, it is fake information they make it up. this is done on purpose. this BLACKMAIL EXTORTION SLANDER/LIBEL PAIN/SUFFERING TORTUROUS INTERFERENCE DAMAGES AND A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF WORTH MILLIONS PER INDIVIDUAL. lets do this!