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New York's attorney general charged Thursday that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide -- by sending emails that raided their private accounts. Andrew Cuomo said he plans to sue the social networking Web site for deceptive marketing and invasion of privacy. "This company stole the address books and identities of millions of people," Cuomo said. "Consumers had their privacy invaded and were forced into the embarrassing position of having to apologize to all their email contacts for Tagged's unethical -- and illegal -- behavior."
Not only did e-mail from tagged attempt to pressure the recipient to respond, once that response happened, the recipient was asked for his e-mail password! At that point, anyone who has read anything about phishing should have deleted the document. At least one person did this (provided his e-mail password) because I started receiving e-mail from tagged.com. It has not stopped, although it is less frequent, and my e-mail host sends it to the spam folder.
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Tell us and you'll also see Who's Searching for YOU?
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