Blue Mountain

Salaam of Oman writes (8/18/01):
Recently I received a copy of an e-card sent through Blue Mountain to a lady working in my organization. Later (to cut a long story short) I finally got evidence that she sent herself this e-card and entered my email address as the sender. The Bluemountain site did not check whether this was truly the sender, and instead went on to send it as is.

The woman had aimed to use this as proof of my interest in her to build up an abuse case (I am CEO of the bank she works in). I wrote Blue mountain many emails to request their help in supplying me with information on this abuse. All I got in return was ONE receipt acknowledging one of my emails. This was on 7/29/2001. Without their help, I was lucky enough to get an admission from the lady who sent herself the bogus e-card, but absolutely no response from Bluemountain as yet.

I am absolutely infuriated at Bluemountain/Excite.com's indifference and also their lapse of checks and controls to ensure such abuse does not happen. I was subjected to a lot of stress and there was a small possibility that I could have lost my job which involves yearly pay of over $220,000!

Salaam is right. There is a gaping chasm in Blue Mountain's safety procedures -- namely, ther aren't any. We tested the system and successfully sent ourselves a "Love" card, using a fictitious name.

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