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Arhhhh! Tagged.com got me
By Nick Hodge | February 26, 2007
Yeah, user error. My mistake. I should have watched all the check boxes on the site. Mea Culpa. Now all my gmail contacts get spam from me. Ugly.
So, whilst I am on the topic: social networking sites should only opt-in, not opt-out. Make it a little more difficult to show your friends you are an absolute dork and idiot. Plaxo had the same effect on people, and it made your Outlook run as slow as treacle.
I am a fan of linkedin.com; myspace.com is interesting but looks as ugly as Prince Charles' second wife; not much else has caught my eye.
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Topics: observation, personal |
March 14th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Sorry to hear that.. in fact you're one among a bunch of people losing their address book to this kind of thievery. Tagged Inc. scoops up your personal e-mail addresses by manipulating the unsuspecting user into putting in Google account information - something you should never, ever do. Invitation messages to everyone in your list are sent without the possibility of choosing which "friends" you want to "tag". It may be that their system is bugged, but frankly it looks like these people are acting in a totally dishonest way and their supposed service should be totally discouraged.
March 15th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
100% agree. Tagged.com sucks
March 20th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Yup, I got sent it by a friend and I never thought twice about it until I started getting mail from people asking what its all about.
hats off its a good scam, it works as well.
the best was I got a mail from tagged.com saying I have added my self
good job I never keep my contact's up-to-date
still I'm a bit hacked off
March 26th, 2007 at 7:28 am
In case anyone is interested here are the
IP's of the Tagged'd servers.
64.125.115.5
64.125.115.6
The registered owner is "Tagged, LLC"
Address is a PO box in San Francisco
Obviously a reputable company
If you want to complain to their ISP, the company hosting their servers then they are:
OrgName: Abovenet Communications, Inc
OrgID: ABVE
Address: 360 Hamilton Ave
City: White Plains
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10601
Country: US
email: abuse@above.net
cc the following address also to make sure they take notice
noc@above.net and arin@above.net
If you would rather phone them to report that tagged.com is using their network to spam, the number is +1-888-636-2778
All of this information was found using a simple whois look up. Don't let these guys get away with it. Call and complain!
Happy and Safe surfing
Natus
March 28th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Agreed. tagged.com sends spam from multiple IP addresses and is clearly nothing more than pond scum. Don't even visit their web site, if you do you're just supporting a spammer.
March 29th, 2007 at 4:53 am
I was wondering, i am new to this forum thing but i had a question, a friend wanted to add me to tagged.com, im not sure if there is more than one tagged or not, but it asked for my email username and password, which i thought was very suspicious, was jus wondering if, 1) this is normal practice or an attempt to get my email password 2.) or if this ok to do on this one site to add ur self to friends list (cant see how though), if anyone has any comments i would appreicate them, althought i didnt give any info , i was jus wondering if this was some scam, and am trying to be safe, i dont want anyone else to fall for this and lose their email account, take care,.. Marcos
March 31st, 2007 at 9:18 am
I just wrote an article about this on my blog. They are very clever!
http://www.istokpavlovic.com/blog/?p=5
April 1st, 2007 at 4:39 am
Question-- when tagged.com asks for your password--I would imagine that you would have to give your actual email passord for them to have access to your entire address book, or does there system somehoe gain access to address book as soon as you log in.
Also, I was curious so I searched the tagged.com site looking for "my friends" profile and there was none. I suppose that only confirms that "my friend" who I do indeed want to get back in touch with, is not actually a member, just a victim of tagged.com
April 1st, 2007 at 6:10 am
What I cannot understand is that Tagged markets itself as a premier teen social networking site stating that “Tagged.com is the premier social networking destination for the Millennial Generation and an ideal place for advertisers who are trying to reach the teen market. Tagged provides a fun, safe, and exciting environment for teens to showcase their personalities and talents, and to connect with friends and meet new ones. Tagged maintains this great environment by only allowing teenagers to register on the site.”
If that is the case then why am I receiving an invite from a 51 year old Harsh from India?
I was able to search the database and their are more than teens on this site.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pm
just another "web 2.0" startup that is going the way of the dinosaurs, I hope.
Note to all that my major complaint is their default "you must opt-out" -- and the error was me clicking too fast.
Anyway, I still think they suck rocks.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
[...] lot of people really hate tagged.com. I got a notice this evening that I’d been tagged by an [...]
April 27th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I am totally frustrated with the domain, can we stand together against it. http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/tagged-com/
Aji
April 27th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Don't know what I can do physically -- but I am leaving this blog entry up and hope EVERYONE reads it before being tagg'd by a stupid site.
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 am
Well, if you look, the Tagged logo in the HTML e-mails they send out has an ID attached to it, and it is called remotely. This is called a Web Bug and it allows them to see that you have read their message - even if you do not click Yes or No. So I'd say they are spammesr.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
yeah, but who can see that stupid opt out message when you are surfing from your iphone.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This is one of the worst sites on the net. Tricking people out of their contact list is illegal.This jerk at abuse
makes it voluntary on your part if you click "yes" . You gave them the right to take you contacts list without your knowledge...Yeh, that sound like stealing all right!
Should a stranger be asking you for your email login? Most of you know you should not do that, but slick
trickery can fool some.
Read on:
First I want to say, I did not click on yes or no....
I complained to abuse@above.net on behalf of someone else "victim " # ?(who knows)
and hope you all will to. The problem is the above.net person seemed to be defensive of this site, which is unusual. In every case I am aware of, they are trying to "protect" the consumer, but in this case, I was threatened with legal action when I called it "stealing" when it is in fact just that, and I am gathering information from this site as well as others, and may contact people to get declarations if this group of scammers try to threaten me again..Here is the text of the message I received from so called "abuse" see if this sounds like the position someone takes, who is trying to be on the side of you and others who have been scammed by this site.
their position:
Dear Farhana,
"Steal" is a very strong term and carrying possible severe penalties. In every instance that I've investigated to date, the email address and specifically the password for the email account was provided freely by the complainant.
Please provide any evidence that you may have, not just the accusation, that your email password was obtained by means other than by you providing it to them.
Sincerely,
Larry McDonald
Policy Enforcement
AboveNet Communications, Inc.
http://www.above.net/corporate/acceptableuse.html
http://www.above.net/corporate/antispam.html
January 31st, 2008 at 8:39 am
Reply to this Larry, the message that I think that you should reply as follows:
"If I give you the key from my house because I'm trusting... you and if you are leaving my house with my TV and all the money you found means that you are stealing"
That's all about
February 5th, 2008 at 6:09 am
You can also try filing a report with the Internet Crime Complaint Center with the FBI.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Recent victom: Signed up for tagged.com, and while entering the registration info I was prompted for mothers maiden name, which like an idioit I entered. I now have one $15 and another $13 charge showing up on my phone bill, which I specifically tracked down to the exact moments I registered with Tagged.com.
VERY SHADY WEBSITE!!
April 27th, 2008 at 3:20 am
STAY AWAY FROM TAGGED!
It was a scam when it first started out and it's a scam now - it was incredibly easy for someone to hack into your account because the people who run tagged had just lifted the code off a javascript website, and the site tried to download viruses to my computer on many occasions.
Now it offers people the opportunity to "manage" various accounts (such as yahoo) from the website - but this is just a sneaky way to get your account details, with no support from any of the companies mentioned.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:21 am
As well as this, it used to ask for your hotmail password to sign up! Why are people still using this website?!
J, one word: lawsuit.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I don't know how this works, but shouldn't this site been shut down a long time ago by the authorities?
I don't know how difficult this is legally, but if 1 in 5 falls for this trick, and 1 in 10 probably continues and gives out his cell phone number and his mothers maiden name(!) (that's really stuff they asked me today!), they'll soon have a catalog of ALL possible scam victims in the US, with the relevant data. Heck, if somebody is even stupid enough to accept one of the commercial offers, they also have his credit card info.
I'm pretty sure there is an federal agency for internet crime, and tagged.com should be one of their main targets.
Who is to contact to stop this? I don't mean above.net, more like FBI or so. Who?
July 13th, 2008 at 2:07 am
I was also a victim of this scam. I received e-mails "supposedly" from family members, inviting me to enter the social network. In addition to the invitation, they throw a little bit of "making you feel guilt" into the mix by telling you "Such and such person will think you are not his/her friend if you don't respond". After filling out information, I started to receive additional monthly phone bill fees of $15.00. It took me a while before they agreed to reverse the charges. AT&T could not do anything about it. So if you haven't taken the trouble to check your phone bill, check it and see if you have an additional monthly charge under the category of :united tel,llc 247MP3S.com I noticed in one of the tagged "fill in the blank pages" that at the bottom of the page they tell you that by hitting submitt you agree to pay 14 something dollars a month. Anyone know anything about this?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:33 am
I clicked on yes when asking if i were a friend of someone...when it came to second page, I seen they were asking for personal questions, and clicked it off..I then started recieving mail from people in my address book. I'm so angry ! I don't do any banking online ,so I'm not to worried. But the idea that got into my address book, and mailed to all them people seems totally illegal to me. I did mail Aol, and told them about it, got a letter on what to do. Please report this ,before it gets out of hand!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:48 am
All i freaking put on there was my email, and i used another password for it not my email one. somehow they still got my contacts list and i didnt even say yes to adding them.