www.tagged.com - Once you’re tagged, you’re it forever! If you join Tagged.com, all your friends will hate you and many will accuse you of relentlessly spamming them with invitations to join.
When you join tagged.com, you reach a screen that asks you if you’d like to find all your friends that are already on the network. You think it’s a nice convenience and you enter your Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo email address and password. This is a huge mistake on your part and Tagged makes you pay bigtime!
It seems this social networking site sends an invitation to join Tagged to everyone who’s ever sent or received an email from you. If you get tricked during signup and enter your Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo account to see if any of your friends are members, it keeps sending them invitations again and again. This viral spamming technique is working well for them and tagged.com is growing rapidly.
Tagged.com received seven million in venture capital, so this is a well-funded and well-planned viral marketing campaign. The only thing they forgot to consider is exactly what it feels like to be on the receiving end of an endless stream of emails saying “so and so” has Tagged you.
Before you know it, all your friends are calling you a “so and so”, albeit in less flattering and more colorful words than that! Tagged is rapidly alienating their user base with this constant spam and users are helpless to stop it.
The infamous Next button of death:
Instantly, they retrieve a list of anyone and everyone who has ever sent or received an email from your Gmail account or other email service. Each of them is checked by default. If you click the big red button that says Next without unchecking your contact list, they all get an invitation from you to join Tagged.
However, most people react to a big red button that says Next in the way that they’ve been conditioned to do from years of web surfing. They click it without thinking and the unrelenting spam flood begins.
The only way to stop it is for each individual who receives a Tagged.com invitation to unsubscribe from their mailing list.
Even worse, those that do join from your invitation make the same mistake and the process starts anew with their own list of friends. Here’s what unfortunate member had to say:
god almighty, this web site is cruel. i’ve been apologizing to friends for days now. you log in to the site and it spams everyone you know. a few days later it does it again. this keeps repeating and theres no way to stop it. i hate tagged.com.
Of course, you can always opt out of inviting your friends during the Tagged.com signup process. After all, you haven’t seen the website yet! Here’s how a user described the web site:
Well, seems like spam-your-friends isn’t required for signup because a few minutes later I got a welcome to tagged email. And my is the place full of ads, everything from ‘you have already won!’ to ‘dating service with lotsa hawt chicks who just happen to live close to you’ to ‘fun IE toolbars’ to…. you get the idea. This “social web service” seems like nothing more than a distribution vector for adware and spamware.
So, be warned and alway be careful online. Just say NO to Tagged.com
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December 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 10:19 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 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Dear Sirs,
Please since 3 months ago, I am allowed to read my messages from Tagged.
Please help me. I used to receive my message by cscav_jma@yahoo.fr.
Thank you for helping me.
Sincerely Yours
THEOPHILE
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
o- boy! Unfortunatly i did make this mistake…and i think i will pay for it if only i had known…
February 16th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Yeah, I am really annoyed by sooo many mails I am getting from tagged. And that is the only reason I haven’t created my profile yet on tagged.
Well, just yesterday my friend found out a big Access Bypass bug in tagged.com. You can access anyone’s profile by just knowing people’s id who have already joined it.
I am going to put an article about this today on my site. And we are going to alert tagged.com too. So that it will help them patching the bug.
- Mittal Patel
http://www.MittalPatel.co.in
http://www.share-ebooks.com
February 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
Oh boy, this invite really tugs at your heartstrings… I received an invite to Tagged.com by a good friend of mine.
The invite says:
______ has tagged you as a friend on Tagged.
Is _______ your friend? Yes / No
Please respond or _______ will think you said no
… How could I possibly refuse?! *snort* I saw through that spam crap right away. Unfortunately, many others on his e-mail list did not. The poor hapless victims are probably unwittingly spamming their friends as I type this message…
I’m glad there is a way to un-sub from these spam e-mails. Thanks!
H.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Yeah it seems as though my wife might have gotten the same thing happened to her. Her and I both have pages on Tagged and she got emails and phone calls from her mother and grandmother asking her what Tagged was all about. It was hard to explain to them but she got herself thru it. She probably sent emails to all her unsuspecting relatives (which are many who live in other states). She wants to erase her Tagged account.
I haven’t had all that much trouble so far but then again I didn’t “search” for my friends on Tagged. I am there to meet others, not people already know… Don’t we all know who our friends are? Alot of people are desperate and don’t I guess…
March 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Unfortunately, I decided to respond affirmatively to a professional acquaintance who included me in her ‘network’ via Tagged. When I got the so-called ‘profile page’ that stated I will be billed (!?) 14.95 -34.95/month, I immediately closed out the window and the site. Immediately, I received emails confirming my subscription to Voicelink and Orbit Telcom and, you guessed it, will be billed monthly. Naturally, I ‘unsubscribed’ and called the cancellation phone number. I informed the woman who invited me of these unfortunate events. I will be reporting this to the Better Business Bureau - I fear this scam is not over and so am geared up for battle.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
i mostly get message from tagged saying i get mails and friend request but anytime i try openning it all i see is sservice unavailable.
soi wont to know why and am in Ghana.
if it is not available in our country them u guys should let us know rather to say nothing about that.
if anything plse let me know.
this my email address cobystus@yahoo.com
March 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
please open tagged in Turkey,our law courts banned ,,
March 19th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Well I just join this site a weeks ago,but just today March19,2008,somebody ask me to be his friend so
I read his profile by the name of Richard K a guy from
Malaysia tagged nos.12211950.I am so surprised to
those porn slides by him,I hope that member be ban
fro this site,shame on him.Hope you give sometime to
that kind of member in the future.I look forward for
your immediate concern.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I find this web a great place to find new friends all over the world,though sometimes some are not that sensitive to say
ridiculous words on chat room.Never the less I still enjoy here but with so much caution and care so to speak,and to
all those here already just be careful in everything like giving your ID and pictures you will never know what will happen next.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:06 am
any time i try to go to tagged.com . server not available comes on de screen . can someone pls help
May 17th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I made the mistake of accepting an invite and SHOULD have known that things were not right when it asked for my email address password but was tired and the person who “sent” it is a very nice person. The next morning I had forty spam emails. I also filed a complaint with the FTC.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:30 am
BEWARE!!!!
Should be the warning for everybody. This should not be accepted. in the proccess of signing up you end up at other websites without even realizing that. And then you are charge fees.
Beware, please help stop Tagged.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I too am appalled by the lengthy ‘questionaire’ that is a format for future spamming. I click ‘pass’ to everything. Also, one precaution i do with EVERY site that requires email and password is to CHANGE the password! And if security is top in your world…make a DUMMY EMAIL ACCOUNT! No contacts, no one to bother! I do this with ALL social websites, and others that require this info. I also find spamming, porn, and scammers on all websites, so that is to be part of reality. Using intelligent caution is the key to today’s world! (P.S. Other than that, i enjoy Tag very much, have many friends!)
June 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Tagged is a horrible spam site going on and should be stopped immediately! I apologize deeply to all my friends who have been so horribly invaded by this scam!! If you get an invitation from a friend for Tagged, be a real friend to all and decline & mark it as spam!
June 13th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Tagged. com blocked my account and i never retrieve all my pictures there all my information, this is suck tagged.com is the worst net ever.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:09 am
How can we closed that net? is there any sites to blocked tagged.com on the net this is my email saint_ellafe24@yahoo.com thanks
June 24th, 2008 at 5:49 am
I have the same unavailable problem here in iran, even with Ultrasurf 8.9, it’s impossible to bann the site from inside our countries……..Guess it must be related to Tagged.com inside!
Anyways i have been member to tagged.com since 2006 and not even recive 1 spam or kindalike. Completely surprised with those statements of urZ. Keep me inform if u knew anythin
RegardS.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am
l want to find my friend on tagged everdy.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:19 am
i am aboy of 19yrs old. i leave in Ghana. i am kind and loving brother and i will like to be your friend thank and i lie to here from you soon byeee
August 8th, 2008 at 11:53 am
this girl jade L is faking girl and one is me i need a tagged number so i can get her done
August 25th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
You could say that it’s spam.
For me, it sounds like phising….
Be careful, your password is known to those dating sites.
Friendster did it also i suppose
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 am
FUCK TAGGED FOR RUINING MY LIFE