We woke up to this text message the other day alerting us that our friend "Ashley" (last name removed for privacy reasons) had shared some photos with us.  Only problem was, we've never actually met Ashley before, we talked with her once many months ago regarding a tip.  Surely we were not on the best friends text message basis with her. Something odd seemed to be up.

When we googled the company we found rave reviews about how many users they were able to get in such a short period of time, insert PR TechCrunch article here, Fast-Growing Photo App Everalbum, A Chart-Topper On iOS, Comes To Android.

But after NOT installing this app, and reaching out to "Ashley" turns out, she said she never texted us any photos, this app was spreading like a virus in order to boost it's user base.  Look at these reviews.

1 Star - EverAlbum - Virus disguised as App? by DonPa777

1 Star - Invasive by elearningfun
My friend downloaded the app and gave it access to her contacts, but without any further warning the app texted every single person on her phone contacts. Talk about embarrassing - people texted her back all day asking if her phone was hacked.
I also revived her text and downloaded the app to see what it was. Didn't do premium or anything. I though I was just viewing my friends album. Instead it uploaded all the photos on my phone to their cloud service - AFTER I deleted the app! What the??? I wasn't on wifi after I deleted the app and my phone service charged me for 2GB more of data because my photos were syncing on cellular data to who the heck knows where - AFTER I deleted the app. So I paid $30 friggin dollars in overage data within 12 hrs after this horrible invasive app

Everalbum is being written up all over for their spam tactics.

On the /r/iPhone subreddit, user Tiannahall wrote:

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EverAlbum spam texted every contact in my phone from 530am - 730am on a Sunday morning.

Another user on /r/photography, cogie:

There are other people complaining about getting SMS spam and there are others complaining that "one false button click" ended up sending junk to every contact on their list.