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In an ironic twist, Tagged.com has won a lawsuit against a spammer. A California judge has found Erik Vogeler guilty of spamming over 6,000 of the site’s members with messages that directed them to adult websites. The judge ordered him to pay $25 per violation plus legal fees, for a total of $201,975. He was also ordered to stop his spamming activities at once.
The irony is that the site’s co-founder, Greg Tseng, was himself fined $900,000 back in 2006 when his company, Jumpstart Technologies, was found in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act. What’s more, this past November, Tagged reached a $750,000 settlement with the Attorney Generals of New York and Tennessee over its own invitation practices.
The site has had a bad reputation for some time, and some anti-fraud advocates consider it a phishing site.
Whether the suit and the site’s recent revamp of its invitation process means the site is turning over a new leaf remains to be seen, but the irony is hard to ignore!
February 6th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Thanks for covering this news and Tagged. While there have been some past concerns – I want to ensure your readers that Tagged is committed to providing the best in social media and email practices. We have made significant improvements to all of our registration and email invitation forms and processes and invite you to review them for yourself.
While there may still be some past legal items to be settled and resolved – Tagged is moving forward stronger and better than ever!
Thank you again!
February 18th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Well, a good start might be to fix your ‘meet me’ system.
That is where 90% of the adult spam comes in because your ‘matches’ allow for false positives.
If my requirements are for 25-30 year old women from Hong Kong for example then it makes no sense that I also see women from (1) the Philippines who are (2) 18-25 or 30+….
If you would after people have been complaining about this simple easy-to-fix bug for nearly a year you would commit to that, you would make 90% of the people more happy because I would not be bother with false positives that turn out to be DC or Philippines or “Peruvian” adult promoters..
Oh and by the way, it’s 2010. Please bring your site into the new decade by making it fully compatible (comments and the likes) with the iPhone. It should not be hard to comprehend that both you as well as the audience is losing out.
Jimmy