Recently I’ve received a mail from http://www.goodtree.com seeking support for charitable causes. But , my alarms went up when I found out that they wanted my gmail account user/password….
It’s noted that people care as much for charity, as a fellow supporter for children's cause but currently I don't see this as legitimate site. Whatever sites try to get your password to your email address is not to be counted as an authentic source. Even if this site is honest, they shouldn't be asking for your password to another account.
the fact that it's "invite only" and flies beneath the radar is also suspicious to me I'd like to see the non-profit filings for this company and if they have listed on the who-is database of Social Entrepreneurship in the united states.
I have received emails like that before. I just brushed them off as scams. The way they see it is most peoples use the same password for everything, so if they can get your "master" password, then they can steal your accounts. Another point to recall is that GoodTree went offline in November 2005, and was re-launched in July 2006, wonder what they were doing in the interim??
My research has been arrested with only one site affirming to "goodtree" reliability namely the Australian yahoo answer page. Quote: "GT might actually be for real. GT seem to be experimenting with a viable business model that generates enough revenue to maintain themselves while supporting charities. They are a .com -- not a .org. Quoting GT's AboutUs page: "Our commitment is to send along a minimum of 25% of gross revenues to the causes of your choice, maybe more if we can, as we see how the experiment works out." Awesome if they can make it work!"
As a necessity rather than a tool I have listed below sites for your future reference that help you filter scam or phishing.
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/threatexplorer/risks/hoaxes.jsp
http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.asp
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxIndex.html
http://www.scambusters.org/ScamDatabase.html
http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/other_resources.html
http://cageyconsumer.com/
http://www.internet-101.com/hoax/
http://www.fraud.org/
http://www.scamorama.com/
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