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As long as I'm posting about scams today, in the hope that someone will find these posts with a web search and not be duped: reunion.com is the latest of the rogue "social networking" sites that asks users to give them their webmail passwords, and then of course spams everyone in their address book. The spam impersonates the owner of the account and tries to get the victim to sign up.
Any web site that asks for a third-party password is up to no good. Terminate any relationship you have with them. (I haven't followed this advice myself for LibraryThing, which started soliciting third-party passwords after I bought a lifetime membership; maybe I should. I've never heard of their spamming anyone, but it's inexplicable that they'd adopt such a practice.)
Some of the links I've found claim that reunion.com also bills people's credit cards without telling them in advance that they are incurring a charge.
Update: Lots of information here, especially in the comments. Reunion.com may be using some sneaky dodge to steal people's address books, possibly involving OpenID spoofing.
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