tagged.com - Blocking tagged.com taggedmail.com - yaari spam
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You may be getting hundreds of mails from a domain called taggedmail.com (which is owned by tagged.com social networks). After the success of orkut, facebook and myspace everyone is starting a social networks. It is good to start one but any system that frustrates the world should be blocked forever.
I am blocking tagged.com and taggedmail.com from all my mail servers. Join the movement to teach the owner a lesson, “RESPECT USERS - Present and future”.
How to block tagged.com and taggedmail.com
With Google it is easy, you can just create a filter http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8151. Even with other mail systems, you can block the emails from some of the domains.
how does taggedmail.com access a contact list?
This is another common question from many of our users. It happens when you enter your gmail account details to tagged.com while registering, it then gets the lists and keep sending this to the people on your behalf. So I never give my gmail/email accounts while registering to any domain. Now you need to go back to tagged.com and delete your account, change the email account settings from tagged.com before deleting it.
how does taggedmail.com work?
Another common question by our users. It is nothing but they get the list when people signup at tagged.com. They don’t send mails from tagged.com but use taggedmail.com to send emails. I know its frustrating but you need to take steps to block it.
Tagged.com says Over 70 million people are on Tagged. Are you? 
How many of them joined the group after getting frustrated? May 69.9 millions. It is such a sad network.
Some of the comments from my friends about tagged.com and taggedmail.com,
>Sirjee…Maine bhi pareshan hoke hi join kiya hai..?
(In English: I also joined this network after getting frustrated)
Dear Santosh,
Please send these messages to individuals and not to the group (just a suggestion).
The above message from our common groups (Alumni groups are getting such invitations), as every time you provide access to your email account they will keep mailing all your contacts. THE KEEP MAILING TILL YOU DONOT SIGNUP, FRUSTRATING FOR SURE.
Lets Tag tagged.com with “BLACK LISTED“
Now there is another network Yaari.com, Yaari spam
Yaari is now spamming my mail boxes like anything. The are forcing me to act every single day. I am going to block them too.
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
I can understand that Larry. For last few months I am not getting any mails from them, may be my spam filter is acting smart these days :).
I almost got zapped by these freaks. A lawyer friend of mind “Tagged” me and he being my best and most valued friend, I thought I’d accept until I entered in my MSN email account and put in my password… AND DID NOT HIT NEXT!! Instead I used Copernic (the free multi search engine tool) and looked it up and WHOA NELLIE! Bad news popped up all OVER the place. Good thing too. Even WikiPedia has them defined as a Phishing site. So I immediately went back to the page and erased my password and MSN account name and got out of there ASAP. Of course to get to the email / password page I already had to agree to their terms - hope that doesn’t screw me up too. At least I had the good sense not to agree to have the idiots put me on their “Send me offers and surveys” crap, but I did tell them my age, sex, full name, zip code and created a password (not worried, it’s different from all my other ones). Those Bozo bastards should rot in a 120 degree sewer somewhere.
…Oh yeah, and one more thing that made me hesitate - I bought the electronic database from the local chamber of commerce that contains the entire Chamber of Commerce Memberships individual email addresses. That’s over 2,000 people right there. Imagine how much I would have been LOVED in my county had they started Phishing the entire business community because of me! Not only that, but since they would have had my email address and password, what would stop them from instantly setting up an account and downloading EVERY SINGLE ONE of my emails containing only the Gods know what - all sorts of good stuff…. so even if I went in and changed my password - it would be too late. Think about that. How does anyone know that they don’t do that using an automated set up NOT just take contact information? I’m in IT, and trust me, a programmer could have that account set up instantly and start downloading anything and everything within seconds of you’re hitting the submit button, while you’re still busy going through the next four or five pages of sign up, they could be scouring and saving all your emails.
I read in the Terms Of Service (TOS) that they can send you any kind of commercial offers they want to - But all applicable laws and threats of lawsuits against you can be used if YOU try to post YOUR business information on their site to sell your OWN services. Nice. Really nice. Bastards deserve to be beaten to DEATH with a large metal spoon.
There MAY be a way out though. They list this information on the TOS page too:
Opt-Out
Users can manage their mailing preferences to specify which type of email to opt out of on their Update Account Info page when they are logged in, simply by un-checking the boxes indicating which type of email they would not like to receive. Canceling one’s account will also prevent a user from receiving future communications from Tagged, and Tagged will not share the user’s information with third parties for marketing purposes.
It’s almost at the bottom of the page at this link: http://www.tagged.com/terms_of_service.html (Sorry for putting their web link on your site - I know it damages even my sense of dignity to paste it here, even though it’s possibly a way to rid yourself of this vermin).
Thanks so much for this information. I did receive the tagged email from my friends. But here is what happened….I entered my information (including password) like a dummy, and then I did hit next. I did ‘uncheck’ the box so I do not get marketing offers…and I backed out of it right away, I deleted my tagged account and then changed my password on my email account, so they could not get in. I should have listened to that little voice inside me telling me not to enter these items. Well, I have not heard of anyone getting tagged emails that are allegedly from me…but do you know how they exactly take my contact list? And how quickly they send out the tagged emails to my friends? I am hoping I changed my password and deleted my tagged account quickly enough. I am not real tech savvy, so I am still confused on how they exactly get into my account. Do they need to actually log into my email account with my password to take my contact list? Or can they steal it some other way. I have very good security on my system, and have learned a big lesson on this one.
>> but do you know how they exactly take my contact list? And how quickly they send out the tagged emails to my friends?
I don’t know their algorithms but with their spamming intention I am sure they might be collecting as many emails as possible ASAP. Technically they can collect all the email ids that are there on your contact list in a matter of secs. Most of the emails over APIs so that these emails can be integrated with other systems. When you provide your access details, they (tagged.com spammer group) will use the API to access your contact list. Most probably they will get the information will store it inside their database. Even if you change the password of your email account they already have the contact list in their database.
I have noticed that they keep sending this emails at regular intervals. Keep asking friends.
Deleting the tagged.com account should work good. Now they won’t be able to send friend request on your behalf.
how do i get to join back to tagged?
Hi Luis, welcome to the blog. Is your email blocked? Try with a new email? You will have to explain us the problem in detail.
MY FIANCEE IS POSTING THIS TO EVERY SITE, FORUM, COMPLAINT SITES, ETC. AND WE MUST HELP STOP TAGGED FROM WASTING SO MANY PEOPLES TIME. SEARCH IT IN ALL THE SEARCH ENGINES AND YOU WILL SEE TAGGED IS BEING BLOCKED IN PLACES AS THEY STEAL YOUR FRIENDS AND INFORMATION. HERE IT IS:
TAGGED.COM SUCKS! THEY DELETED MY PROFILE. ALL THE MESSAGES AND COMMENTS FROM MY FIANCEE AS WELL AS ALL THE COMMENTS I SEARCHED MANY HOURS FOR… ALL OF IT… GONE!. 2500 plus friends. all comments, pics, pic comments, journal, messages … everything! GONE!
TAGGED DID THIS TWICE!! TAGGED CANNOT BE TRUSTED! GET OUT AND GO TO A REAL SITE BEFORE IT HAPPENS TO YOU… YES I LIKED TAGGED. BUT WHEN U LOSE ALL YOUR STUFF… ESPECIALLY THE NEXT TIME …YOU WILL HATE TAGGED FOR WASTING YOUR TIME. IF YOU CREATE ANOTHER SITE THEN THEY PUT A BLOCK ON YOUR COMPUTER SO YOU HAVE TO ENTER CAPTCHA TO DO ANYTHING.. and yes I was an active member and had a few decent friends. The other 90% were mostly scammers and fakes. All of my decent friends are leaving there because as others have said in many places, it’s nothing but lowlifes anyway so why even bother with a failing scammer site.
WIKIPEDIA SAYS THE FOLLOWING ABOUT TAGGED.COM:
A TIME magazine article called Tagged “The World’s Most Annoying Website”.[22] Tagged asks users for their email username and password, checks their email address books for contacts and repeatedly sends email invitations to people who are not yet on Tagged, stating that they have been “added as a friend” or that the inviter had sent them photos on Tagged. This process has drawn criticism in the technology press[23][24] and from users.[25] These emails were discussed as possible spam by Black Web 2.0.[26] The resemblance to a virus has often been mentioned, including by urban legend site Snopes.com.[27] The New York Times referred to the practice as “contact scraping” [28]
In July 2009 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to sue Tagged.com for “deceptive email marketing and invasion of privacy” [29] According to the press release, Tagged.com engaged in “deceptive Email Promotions, Identity Theft, and Invasion of Privacy ”
Prior to co-founding Tagged, Greg Tseng was co-founder and CEO of internet incubator Jumpstart Technologies.[30] In March 2006, Jumpstart Technologies settled with the Federal Trade Commission on alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, which included a $900,000 fine but no admission of guilt.[31]
From February 2009, Tagged.com has been blocked in Qatar by the only ISP, Qtel, after a number of complaints from the public.[32] Tagged.com had been one of the 10 most visited sites in Qatar.[33]
TAGGED.COM is the WORST website ever, I joined and I used it, there is spam, there is pornography, there are many other things that will make you think, why is this website not banned yet?
The tagged team are a bunch of idiots, they never delete those thousands of people who are spreading pronography and spam, but sometimes they delete you for no reason.
They love to make money, if you pay for VIP or pay for GOLD, then you can do whatever you want, you will never get deleted. and if you are not paying, you never when and why you are gonna get deleted by tagged team.
you keep repoting abuse and pronography but they never get deleted, the tagged team will delete you instead.
Almost every user have some problem in tagged,and when you go “TAG BACK” you report your problem, you will see that there are thousands of people reporting problems everyday, but not even read by tagged team.
If you write email to the tagged Support Team about your problem, you get an automatic reply which always says this “we are aware and we are working on it, thanks for your patience” and sometimes they even bounce back your email refusing to recieve it.
So my advice is, Do youself a favor and DO NOt join Tagged.
Do NOT join Tagged, and if you have Leave it now,Tagged is the worst, the most annyoing, the most stupid and the most boring website ever….
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