Tagged…You are SO not it

August 14th, 2009. By AbiK

By now you may have seen the news about the site Tagged.com. Wonder what all the fuss is over? Take a look, compliments of my inbox:

Annoying, right? Well, two folks from California have had enough of Tagged.com’s tactics and are suing the company. The lawsuit alleges that Tagged.com duped them into sharing their email contacts and started sending all those contacts misleading ads.

As reported at mediapost.com, the claim states “Tagged harvested millions of email addresses from the email address books of consumers. Then, using these consumers’ email account credentials, Tagged sent unsolicited advertisements to the harvested email addresses, making the messages appear as if they were invitations to join Tagged sent by persons known to the recipients.”

The screen shot above is the exact depiction of what happened to me. Someone sent me a Tagged.com message on Facebook. Voila! I’m now on Tagged.com’s email love list. And as the plaintiffs state, I too do not recall ever signing up for anything and merely clicked to see the “photos” my friend on Facebook said she was “sharing” with me via Tagged.

Tags: Tagged.com

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