TWOO may not be for you
I recently received an email from an Organisation called TWOO, claiming that one of my author friends had invited me to join.
Since I like to keep in touch with all the authors I know, I went through the process and joined without first checking it out.
BIG MISTAKE!!!!!
Be aware that it is NOT an authors hangout, or another Facebook / Twitter / Google+ / etc, alternative!
During the sign in process, it raided my email contacts and has already sent “Invitations” from “ME” to my contacts.
If you have received such an invite, please CHECK FIRST if you REALLY want to join it – I cannot find any way to leave it or cancel anything it has done.
DO NOT JOIN or ACCEPT the invite unless you REALLY want to MEET NEW PEOPLE!!!!!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Thanks for the warning! I haven’t gotten caught! You didn’t send ME any TWOO email – should I be disappointed? LOL
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Your email is certainly in my contacts Lorinda, so you’ve been very fortunate so far 🙂
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I’m sorry you got stung but thanks for fessing up so I don’t have to!
Cheers
MTM
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LOL MT you say that soooo nicely LOL 😀
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There is so much of this around now. I keep getting emails from “companies” claiming that I signed in with them. Usually they are something to do with authors and I shy away until I’m sure. The other big no-no at the moment is the ones where you have to enter your card details before you can register, with an assurance that they won’t take money out of your account. Oh yes? Call me a suspicious old bag but if you don’t want my money, why do you need my credit card details? Hmmm?
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I can usually spot a scam or phishing email, but this one caught me out 😦
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Thanks for the post. I did get an email from them using your name, and reported that email as spam to gmail. Spammers and phishers are clever in how they try to trick us by pretending they are someone we DO trust.
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Glad you managed to avoid getting sucked into it Lita 🙂
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Welcome back Chris – you were missed! I’ll delete that Twoo thing. 😀
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I’m only partly back Jo, still on holiday and offline most of the time, but woke up very quickly after I realised what this darn site actually was LOL 😀
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Reblogged this on Jo Robinson.
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Reblogged this on All That's Written … and commented:
Don’t Accept Invitations From ‘Me’ on Twoo It Isn’t Me!
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Feck! I fell for it since I trust you and didn’t know you had been fooled too. Ugh! I do so hate these scams!
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Don’t worry Lucy, I think it’s VERY easy to fall for scams like this one – in future I will ALWAYS check stuff out before accepting any invites 🙂
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But at least I found how to delete my account there. Sign in, go to settings, click edit your profile and change status of your account from activated to delete account. You’ll then be asked if you are sure, which of course you are, and that should be it.
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GREAT, thanks Lucy – I’ve just issued a post about this (after deleting my account with them) 😀
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Oh no. Thanks for the heads up.
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Glad I managed to get the message out quickly enough to help someone else avoid it Catherine 🙂
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How disappointing, I thought I had an ape-admirer!
I looked it up before signing in and the spamming thing is a big complaint.
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LOL, you DO have an ape admirer Mark, but not in the way TWOO wants it to be LOL 😀
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