31st July 2007: College days were long over. Sharad had left to Kharagpur to join his new job and I was left back with 3 of my juniors at room coz I had booked my ticket for a few days later. One fine morning I opened my gmail account to find a weird mail which read “Welcome to Shaadi.com Prathul”. Curious I opened it to find a Shaadi.com profile in my name. Someone had decided to play a prank on the prankster!!! Luckily it was created by a friend coz the profile was good enough. 
It said I was 25 year old Hindu Keralite working for Infosys Technologies. Last time someone had created a profile of Sharad, he was getting marriage requests from handsome men coz the guy who created his profile had given his gender as female. 
He didn’t do anything about it other than spam it and kept getting 1-2 requests each day. I wonder whether he is getting those even today.
Coming back to my story, I couldnt login to Shaadi.com coz I didnt have the password. I tried forgot password and luckily for me, the guy had used my correct date of birth. After getting a new password I changed my mobile number to something random. Next I started hunting for a way to delete the profile. But unfortunately on all matrimonial sites, you can only create profiles. To delete them, you need to mail customer relations. I left it there coz the password hunting had took a lot of time and it was already noon; hence I went for lunch. When I came back I found 4 new responses to my profile!!! 
3 keralites and 1 punjabi. Two of the keralites and the punjabi was really cute, the fourth one didnt have a photo. 
Wonder why the punjabi decided to marry a keralite. Seeing the photos I got proposals from, I thought how nice it would have been if I was really getting married.. lols. 
But then I have had enough and decided to mail the customer relations of Shaadi.com. Hence I composed the following mail and submitted through their website. Ofcourse I was outrageous for having gone though a tough time guessing my password:
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Hi,
Somebody created my fake profile in your system and now I am getting lots of responses. I didnt get any username or pass to my mail and hence I couldnt delete my profile while logging in. I managed to get my password though “Fogrot Password” and thereafter logged in and deleted my mobile number.
I am 21 years old and is not considering marriage in near future. Anyway considering the responses I am getting from your system, i would consider it when time comes.
Please delete my profile and also is it possible for me to know the IP address from which the profile was created?
Suggestion:
When someone registers, send them a confirmation message to their mail id before conforming registration.
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My roomates had alreay known about the issue and the news had soon spread from person to person. The news spread so fast that by the time it reached Sharad, it had lost the original story. This is an actual copy of my conversation with sharad that took place on gtalk.
sharad: chiru bol raha hai tera engagement ho gaya??.
4:35 PM me: abe ruk saale
yahan pe unsubscribe option nahi mil raha hai
sharad: ruka hi to hoon. tu mat kar
4:39 PM me: faltu log hai. Unsubscribe option hi nahi hai
tere ko aaj kal proposals nahi aa raha hai kya?
sharad: kya proposals
me: pahle tere ko bhi aa raha tha na?
sharad: oh woh… ab nahi aa raha
4:51 PM me: he he
naya idea mil gaya
profile change to nahi kar saktha, lekin edit kar saktha hai
maclean ka email id pata hai? (Again, evil me. 
I planned to change the email in my profile to Maclean’s email id so that all proposals goes to him. Btw Maclean was my prime suspect behind the whole thing.)
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By evening news had spread that I got married and friends in gtalk were bombaring me with question like “How on earth did it happen?”,”Whats wrong with you?”,”Congragulations!!!”,”Really?”,”Finally!!!”,”Which unlucky girl are you getting married to?”, blah blah blah. Thank goodness, by evening Shaadi.com responded to my request and deleted my profile and send me the following mail. Click the link below to see it.
http://www.shaadi.com/customer_relations/matrimonial_help/call.php?id=1002924&temp=20070731031005
At the end of the day I had marriage proposals from 3 cute girls and also the knowledge about the best martimonial site out there to get quick responses from brides as well as customer support… Shaadi.com indeed!!!
I miss rains ever since I moved to Tamilnadu. Rains in kerala were so common sometimes we got fed up with it. Not only the smart electricity board found it as a wonderful reason to save electricity the moment the first drop touched the ground, they were careful enough to keep the receiver of their phone away from cradle to avoid enquiry calls.
