This evening, I was sent a couple
of invites from Tagged.com by people on AOL. It seems that it wasn't
them doing it directly, but the site. They are one of the breed that
abuses your email addressbook for sending out invites. Scam at best,
phishing at worst, apparently. Read this review - wait for a few seconds for the banner ad to clear as you enter the page.
This was first posted on Northern Trip on 3 April 2008, but I feel this deserves wider dissemination, as it keeps happening.
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I know that Tagged.com has had it's problems. I've gotten some invites, but I'm just ignoring them.
Missie
Yeah, I have been getting a lot of those. Thanks for the heads up. -Missy *MISSYZ STUFF*
yup...i got them too.
thanks Guido!
Nancy
I have been getting them a lot lately. I had the sense to ignore them and delete them. But I was wondering what they were. Thanks for the heads up.
Krissy
tagged sucks
Thanks for letting us know I had one like that the other day but I ignored it :o)
Jenny
http://journals.aol.co.uk/Jmoqueen/MyLife
I got some of those and just ignored them. I wondered what it was about, seemed odd. Ughhh..never ends does it.
Hugs
Ang
Here is some more info Guido. I received those too from people I knew on AOL. I went ahead and signed up. When you make an account, they ask what client do you use (AOL, Yahoo, etc) then ask for your s/n and password. They open your address book and the people in your address book all show and if any of your buddies in your address book are on Tagged, it will show up. Probably 1/3 people in my book showed up with an account on Tagged. They have every single email address checked so when you sign up, it sends automated emails to everyone in your address book. Of course, I unchecked all of mine because I didn't want automated emails going out. It's just like a myspace account. After doing more research, I canceled my account and changed my AOL password. If anyone wants to sign up with them, I'm just letting you know to uncheck all the email addys in your address book to prevent "spam".
~Dana
thanks for this info; I got two today and wisely decided to delete them
betty
Thanks for letting me know. I keep deleting them and marking as spam. What a pain! Deb ;-)
http://journals.aol.com/sassydee50/SassysEYE
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I've been getting several over the past few days and have deleted them, remembering your post. I just hope folks know what they are getting into.
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