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Tagged.com to Pay New York $500,000 in Penalties

November 9, 2009 From the very beginning, the social networking site Tagged.com rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, reading users' email address books and sending out promotional email to their lists of contact. Full Article at Consumer Affairs

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  1. Tagged.com has paid $750,000 in penalties to New York and Texas after the states accused the social networking outfit of abusing its members' contact lists and spamming millions with deceptive promotional emails. Full Article at The Register

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    New York - A social networking site has been fined $500 000 (about R3,5-million) and told to overhaul its practices following charges it tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members and send out tens of millions of spam emails. Full Article at Independent Online

  3. Law enforcement officials in New York and Texas have extracted $750,000 from social networking site Tagged.com to settle investigations that the company engaged in deceptive email marketing. Full Article at MediaPost.com

  4. In a move that would make Chuck Norris proud, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today that the state of Texas had reached an agreement with Tagged, Inc. , a social networking site that was accused of tricking users into providing access to... Full Article at WalletPop

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