Spam Alert from Spacelocker - Tell Your Friends

A while back we checkout the Spacelocker an online “meeting place”.  Its our job here at Out-Smarts to keep a head of new technologies and check new tools out however whimsical they are.

Today Spacelocker or someone pretending to be Spacelocker spammed us and our contacts.  Our gmail was hacked and those in our address book got an email inviting them to join Spacelocker.  I want to make it very clear that we did not send out invites to anyone and on the contrary we discourage you from signing up for Spacelocker.  Any company that is willing to spam its users to promote itself is beyond contempt.

Here’s a link to Gmail support explaining the situation.  Please do not sign up for Spacelocker or you risk the same happening.

This is a product aimed at youngsters and I encourage all parents, teachers and caregivers to take note as well - if they can’t be trusted with email then how can they be trusted with our children’s profiles?

Here’s some hypocrisy from Spacelocker’s Privacy Policy:

“No Spam
Spacelocker condemns spam. We email users and their friends only when it has been provided for and agreed to under our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service prohibit all users from engaging in any activity involving spam on our service. Violations of these policies may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against any spammer. Such violations may subject the sender and their agents to civil and criminal penalties.”

If you received the email from Spacelocker, please accept our profuse apologies.  It didn’t come from us.  We don’t do Spam.