Did you get Social Spammed?

Since last couple of weeks, I’ve been received numerous emails from Tagged, a new social network. I tried to unsubscribe myself using the “unsubscribe from tagged” link at the bottom of their email, but it didn’t work. I finally decided to go off the way and see what was wrong at Tagged. When I tried to sign up with tagged, I was forced to give my Gmail username and password to send invite to my Gmail contacts. Surprisingly, there is no option to skip this step. I really pity on those who really give their username and passwords to such social networks.

Amit Agarwal seems to have a similar problem, he tried marking their email as spam, but still their spammy invites continued to flow because Tagged sends email from the user’s address. You can create a filter in Gmail to delete all mails which has “Tagged you! :) ” in its subject.

 

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Or, if your email service provider doesn’t support filters, you can do it in your email client. Tagged is not the only spammy social network, earlier there was Gazzag which flooded our inboxes with similar emails.

This post was published by on March 5, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://shankarthetechie.blogspot.com Shankar Ganesh
  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Shankar: Actually, it was just a mere coincidence that Amit wrote exactly what I had in my mind. Didn’t I link to his post on mine ??

  • http://shankarthetechie.blogspot.com Shankar Ganesh

    oops!.. didn’t see the link under the image sorry :)

  • http://www.enblogopedia.com/ Enblogopedia

    How could you share your account info with anonymous, at first place?!

  • http://www.lytebyte.com Mr.Byte

    Hey I survived their test… I have been getting this for past 1 year or so and finally I decided to try last week… when they asked me to enter the email id and password, I simply closed the tab and opened another tab and logged in to see what its all about without giving my credentials.

  • http://www.tagged.com Johann

    You e-mail should be unsubscribed by now. Outgoing mail at Tagged got really backed up late last week and over the weekend, so you might have received messages long after the application sent them. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Johann: Sorry for the negative post, but I got pissed off when I woke up last morning and found atleast 30 – 40 emails from Tagged. You should add an option to skip that step (to give away our GMail username and password). Maybe that’s how you can get back into business.

  • tariq

    tagged is not the only one. my inbox is filled with loads of such emails

  • http://puneetworld.indiablogs.org puneet

    thanks this would help…because i too was looking for solution and this tagged thing damn annoying…

  • http://www.anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    Ugh, I keep a different account for all activation mails etc, but since this is user invites, my personal inbox is getting clogged. ugh.

  • http://www.lytebyte.com/ Mr.Byte

    Hey I survived their test… I have been getting this for past 1 year or so and finally I decided to try last week… when they asked me to enter the email id and password, I simply closed the tab and opened another tab and logged in to see what its all about without giving my credentials.