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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
Mylife.com just stole $155.40 from me. I mistakenly paid $9.99 for access to my profile, which I never received access fully, only to be immediately charged $155.40 for access to another portion of my profile that I NEVER agreed to. I agreed to a one time only charge of $9.99 and what little information I was given was incorrect. Received a misleading email stating someone was searching me and I have updates to my profile yet to access these so called updates I had to pay a ridiculous fee. That is the reason I chose one time $9.99 fee. In this day and age who can afford $155 for this. I’m a single mother supporting 2 kids alone they should be ashamed. Please add me to class action suit. Still haven’t seen a refund and doubt I will. Thank you
I also feel that My Life is fraudulent. Today I received a charge on my credit card for $44.85. I never signed up for it. Called and had a tough conversation with their employee. She FINALLY agreed to refund the money. Time will tell if I get it back! Enrolling people without their knowledge and charging them for services that they don’t even know they are enrolled in. Get them to stop this fraudulent practice!
I would also like to be added to the class action lawsuit because I am constantly getting emails saying that I have a criminal record when I DO NOT! Does anyone know how to get your information deleted from their website? I almost paid to see about “editing my information” but I decided to try an internet search first to see if it was a scam and I found this page. I’m glad that I didn’t pay anything now that I’ve read these comments!
Instead of simply deleting their emails, mark them as spam.
That should help some.
I want to sue them fir facilitating a bad marriage! I found an old friend, and ended up marrying him! LOL!!
But seriously, these people post bogus info. I paid them a few bucks once to change my profile narrative, wherein I warned the public about the libelous and false info. They did not, however, remove the incorrect info further into the site.
I have screenshots of a recent mylife interaction that is absolutely extortion. They claimed my reputation score was -18% and threatened to expose my criminal record and my families addresses and then offered to “rescue me” from other companies who publish my data.
My Life is always popping in my email and I do not have an account with that website. It’s showing me having as bad reputations on friends, neighbors, relatives and also showing negative damaging record.
Yes…I tried 3 times to get rid of them through a phone number and that hasn’t worked. For a 2-week span, there wasn’t any mail, then it started again. There has got to be a way to get off MyLife. I wrote to Google about this and there is no way to permanently delete them and I am getting a heluva lot of email from Lawyers and there is no lawsuits in my background.
MyLife.com is stating that I have a criminal record when I don’t have one. I have been looking for a job for while and wonder if these fake records are giving me a hard time landing anything. Please add me to the list if it is still valid.
These guys are saying I not only have a criminal record, but that I am a SEX OFFENDER. Somebody please post the names and addresses of the owners as they have done to us.
These people have to be stopped. It is complete extortion. What if a person is a victim of stalking and they are putting people in direct danger by putting addresses and phone numbers out in the internet to be continued stalking. That is first and foremost and then the complete defamation of character is a huge, huge deal as well. You have to become a premium member to keep them from posting your personal information along with the incorrect information. That is both civilly and criminally immoral. They need to be shut down.
I too was scammed by mylife.com out of $99.90 and even have an email confirming they were to reimburse me in January 20 20 and they never did for fraudulently charging my credit card without my permission for $79.$.95 and then add $18.95 of which I never signed up for and I want my money back from these thieves because they used to work under reunion.com also this Jeffery Guy has three class action lawsuit under his belt now but I want my money back immediately like I was promised in my email from mylife.com dated January 2, 2020 fraudulent charges on my credit card in December 2019!