This is an alert to avoid, whenever possible, the social networking site known as WAYN.com (Where Are You Now). A long time ago, I had signed up on WAYN.com for gits and shiggles, just to see what it was like. I was attracted to its travel theme. However, as soon as I created an account, I realized it was a big mistake. I immediately was spammed by every creeper from Amsterdam to Angola. Needless to say, the conversations, if you could have one (you need to pay money to access the enhanced features), were not travel related. Discouraged, I walked away from the site, never to use it again. However, it doesn't end there.
Just today, I received an E-mail from the site stating that somebody with some crazy name (Mbupu? Mwananabala? Ghaddafi?) wanted to be my friend. I didn't click on the E-mail for obvious reasons, but this reminded me nonetheless that I still had an active account with WAYN. So, I did what I thought was the logical thing, and logged into the site to deactivate my account. As soon as I logged in, my browser went haywire! I was redirected to one of those fake virus scan sites, and a program was trying to download and open automatically. Luckily for me I use Firefox, which has excellent blocking capabilities, and also luckily for me, is that these cyber-miscreants were dumb enough to create their own pop-up windows that looked like Windows XP (I use Windows 7 now, fellas!) I also have Microsoft Security Essentials which is a great anti-virus utility. I strongly recommend it, but I digress.
I just wanted to put the heads-up out there to avoid WAYN.com. It will certainly save you a lot of headaches.
