New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo lashed out at social networking service Tagged.com, accusing it of distributing millions of pieces of spam and tricking its users into giving up personal information used in sending said spam.

Cuomo claims that between April and June Tagged.com sent out messages to consumer’s contacts that were fake notifications that looked as though they were coming from a friend. He says his office intends to sue for deceptive email-marketing and invasion of privacy.

The company denies any wrongdoing, blaming the problem on a registration process that has since been discontinued and also blamed its own customers, suggesting they accidently gave their consent for the spam emails to be sent out.

“We realize that some were confused and accidentally agreed to invite their friends,” said Greg Tseng, Tagged’s chief executive, in a prepared statement. “We are truly sorry for any inconvenience or frustration that these people experienced.”

What both Cuomo and Tagged.com do agree on is that when people registered on the site, emails were sent to all their contacts stating that one of their friends “sent you photos on Tagged.” The link provided would prompt them to register on the site and the cycle would begin again. Not good business practice at all.