Simple, Don't ever, ever, EVER, trust anything that involves inviting, sharing, email address', or personal info. they are all scams, real e mail follows something called netiquette.

Have you sent emails to all of the recipients, warning them of the scam?

Sorry for your unfortunate situation. As God Of Irony said, it is simple, don't open them...but is it really that simple? The answer is NO! There are very clever ways that scammers have come up with to trick us. The reality is that these dirtbags probably got your info from your ex girlfriend, and her info from somebody else. They know the majority of people are getting pretty wary of email scams, so they find ways to get to you emotionally. You for example, they used the real full name of somebody you were very familar with. We should be wary of the internet, email and all that stuff. I had gotten one of those invitations for "quick cash now" in my inbox about two weeks ago and I accidentally opened it while trying to move it to the junk box. It was one of the very few spam emails that my Trend Micro did not detect ahead of time. I deleted it right away. Within a half hour I had over 20 messages in my trend micro folder from similar companies with similar offers. In the past two weeks I have literally gotten thousands of these emails, the vast majority end up in my spam box, but they come nonetheless and now this company has my information so who knows what they will do with it. Even supposed legit sites do things that are morally questionable. I bought something on Ebay from a guy in Spain, he sent me the tracking number of the item. I tracked it on the website, which is Spain's version of the USPS, and now I get all kinds of banner ads in Spanish. Is it harmful? Not necessarily, but it could be if that site wanted it to be.

That sucks, but like the people have said before, just refuse to open them, and as long as you sent all the recipients an email saying not to open it, you should be fine. Do a virus scan to just in case if you have a virus blocker.

The scam e-mails coming from someone on my contacts always crack me up.

Man, when did my dad start caring so much about Acai berries!?

I'm sorry you took the bait on this however though... time to start switching over all your passwords, if you use the same one on that account for any other sites.

I would reccomend that you scrub your computer clean. I mean really clean it of all personal information. You see, right now you're only receiving spam but it could be that the spam is opening a door for some hackers virus. Try to take anything out like credit card number, zip code or phone number. You can also make a new email account if you wish.  

you really want to be careful. my friend got a trojan virus from an email, which allows a hacker to see whats going on, on the computer screen and his mom went and paid a bill online and.. got her credit card info stolen.

My mom got stuck with the same thing, I think it was shtyle.com?  I ended up having her send an email to everyone letting them know not to open it, then I googled how to cancel whatever membership and did that.  Haven't had a problem since.

The reason they got in is because you gave them your email account and password for said account, they asked for it and you gave it to them.  Never do that, and don't use the same password for everything either.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that...

best way to get rid of stuff like that is take a bag of twizzlers and sacrifice it to the internet gods.lol

don't open anything funny looking in your email.

Here is another tip make another email account on yahoo or a thunderbird email account and use a lot of numbers and letters in random patterns in the your new address name and only use that email for important emails only. the more random the email name the harder it is for scammers to find you.

You should had asked your ex if she heard of the site before. You need to be very careful now. Open stuff that you know for sure won't hurt you.