Tagged.com

Posted by Kate Smith on April 20th 2010 to Administrative

Did any of you ever get a message from Tagged.com?

I’ve deleted them all, but they went along the lines of: “your technologically un-savvy friend has given us her email password and we’ve helpfully spammed everyone in her address book with a message that she’s left a very personal message for you and that you should sign up at our site to find out what she said. And while you’re at it, please give us your email password as well so that we can continue this behavior with everyone in your address book as well?

Due to this behavior, tagged.com now claims that they’re the 3rd largest social networking site in the US and worth $700 million.

Recently, several states have gone after them for deceptive business practices regarding this email spamming. New York and Texas went after the site last year, and San Francisco got in the fun as well – last week it was announced that tagged.com has agreed to a $650,000 settlement and will change their current practices. Well, they’ll still ask for your email password to send out spam, but they’ll be much more upfront about it! I guess it’s a start…

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14874240

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