I received a couple of Tagged invites fr…
I received a couple of Tagged invites from my friends too. I pretty much had enough of social network sign ups. It gets really tiring to sign up so I ignored it. Luckily. Tagged, as The Independent puts it, has stolen the identities of > 60 million users!
60 million stung in social networking rip-off
New York’s attorney general says that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million internet users worldwide – by sending emails that raided their private accounts.
“This company stole the address books and identities of millions of people,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Consumers had their privacy invaded and were forced into the embarrassing position of having to apologise to all their email contacts for Tagged’s unethical – and illegal – behaviour.”
Cuomo said Tagged acquired most of them fraudulently, sending unsuspecting recipients emails that urged them to view private photos posted by friends.
The message read: “(name of friend) sent you photos on Tagged.”
When recipients tried to access the photos, Cuomo said they would in effect become new members of the site – without ever seeing any photos.
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uzyn 10:37 am on July 12, 2009 Permalink
That’s really too much.
It’s just lucky/unlucky that Tagged is a tangible/contactable company. Any sites could’ve done the same and grew big through such unethical practice while hiding their true identity.
Sad thing is that such unethical practice is still too beneficial to stop. Same reason why spam and 419 scams are still aplenty today.