Time Magazine had previously labeled Tagged “The World’s Most Annoying Website” for its intrusive and deceptive email scam claiming your friends have sent you photos, or have posted photos of you on this unpopular website, Tagged.  I refuse to even link the website.  However, once you sign up you’re easily deceived into spamming your entire contact list with an email stating you sent them photos on Tagged, requesting them to register on the site to see the photos you never even uploaded so that the cycle continues.

A new class action lawsuit filed last week (Thank you for the heads up, Mr.  Malley) against Tagged by Miriam Slater and Sara Golden.  The lawsuit alleges that Tagged “in executing a massive email solicitation campaign to register new members, failed to disclose to consumers that it was using its members’ email address books to propagate yet more solicitation messages to appear as if they were personal communications from the consumers whose email contacts it had pilfered, and Defendant’s messages included false statements that the senders were seeking to contact or share photographs with the recipients.”  Last month the New York Attorney General also stated he planned to sue Tagged for “deceptive email marketing and invasion of privacy.”

I am pretty sure I signed up for this website in the past.    I am usually very careful about the emails I select and have in the past been duped into sending social networking emails to my entire contact list which includes everything from potential employers to my great Aunt Sandy.  Suffice to say, I’ve never uploaded any photos to Tagged and I never plan on it.  That site is the devil!

I’m not sure if I should expect more out of Harvard graduates and Tagged founders, Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith or if this exactly the kind of scam that would come out of an Ivy League school.  I think every website and email host should have the “recall message” option like Microsoft Outlook does.  It would have saved me a lot of trouble in the past!

Nevertheless, if I get a new email from “you” inviting me to see photos on Tagged, not only will I pull out my Homey the Clown sock and bop you over the head with it (’cause Homey don’t play that), I will also start sending you Huggies Network emails like someone so kindly registered me for.  Thanks for the free diaper.  Really.