A Donkey on the Edge

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 your contacts list without your knowledge...

Yeah, 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 I hope you all will too.

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

Thanks. These buzzards appeared to me by announcing that I needed to confirm that I was a friend of somebody who was indeed a friend, one very unlikely to have set me up in this manner. As I proceeded down the menu structure, questions immediately became invasive. I stopped.

I contacted my friend, who said that his address had been raided, that he was notifying everyone on an extensive list (volunteers in the California State Park System) that he had been hit by a scam.

So when I tried to find on the Tagged.com website a contact field, of course there was none. Your phone number however is just fine, and it shall soon be put to good use, since I intend to make it available to the mailing list of the affected volunteers.

Bottom line: I do not care if these people are angels with the best service this side of Mars. When approached on the net in any kind of fishy manner, whoever it is becomes permanent anathema in my book.

i hate this donkey video it is horrible

Of course I still use the site.

I get what you are saying about Tagged, but I don't think you are paying attention to the tricks that Facebook and Myspace and all the other social networking sites pull... which is why I don't use the other sites anymore.

Maybe the other sites are just more clever about pulling the wool over everyone's eyes.

But really, if someone is gonna pull a fast one on me, why not be up front about it? I don't feel like Tagged is hiding anything. Social networking in general might just be the worst idea for someone to do if they want privacy...but for those who are willing to put themselves out there, I think that Tagged is doing a great job of making better the things other sites have tripped up on.

One of the things I like best about Tagged is that it is a one-stop shop. I can do my email from tagged, read the news from tagged, and keep tabs on-the-know about my friends.

Yea, the site could use a little bit of elbow grease, but I think they've got something going for them that goes beyond what other sites have done for themselves.

Hi Sarah, thanks for your opinion. Could you elaborate on that?

I mean how did you build your community and with who? Do you still use the site?

Tagged is Great!

You don't know what you're talking about.

So yeah, it's about getting into the spirit of the thing, you know, like Tesco organic chicken being organic because it barely passes the absolute minimum requirement for the apellation.

Like happy chicken, community is supposed to have a spirit, an attitude, something that marks it as good for ya...

So really, Tagged.com needs to keep a lid on the spambot stuff. That said, they appear to be doing really well in the traffic stakes and by approving the above spam I've even added to the problem...

So guys, stay away from tagged.com please? ok?

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