Is google Inc and Tagged.inc related?

[vyasamoorthy]

I got an invitation from Tagged.inc from a friend of mine to join a
social network in TAGGED.
(www.tagged.com). As a part of signing in tagged.inc you are asked to
furnish your userid (I gave my gmail address) and then my gmail
password. Though there is a statement that the password will not be
abused, why should anyone from Tagged.inc ask for my gmail password?

In the case of ORKUT a single password login is enough for gmail or
ORKUT.
But tagged is not related to Google or gmail.

Why then Tagged.inc is collecting email passwords? CAN SOMEBODY REPLY?

Vyasamoorthy, P

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[Bill Holmes]

Hi,

I don't know about Tagged.com but some of these sites collect your
password so they can access your contacts and send out spam.

Don't give anyone your password.

Bill

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"Chance And Circumstance Radio"

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[Ryan Morehart]

Just to verify, I believe that this is the case with Tagged. With some frequency this list gets "you've been tagged by blahbl...@someplace.com" messages (they're killed in moderation though). The people those messages come from likely had the Gmail Users email address in their contact list and so unknowingly gave out the address when they gave Tagged their password.

I would not sign up for the site unless you're sure it's safe. Sending out unwanted mail to your entire contact list is an unwarranted abuse of power which could indicate more dangerous intentions on the company's part.

Ryan

[Zack (Doc)]

This blog <http://www.istokpavlovic.com/blog/?p=5> confirms that it's
causing users to spam their friends, and on-time e-mailers. There
have even been cases where the friends were spammed even before you
pressed "next" and accepted.

But like the guys said... never give another web site your password
except where it's appropriate and you trust it (I have all my
frequently flier miles and car rental points collected on one site,
but that's all they have access to, no personal data that I didn't
already give directly to them).

[vyasamoorthy]

Thanks for all who replied and cautioned me.
Zack (Doc)'s reply specially the link (istoppavlovic ) quoted gave
immense info.
I am better informed and rightfully warned.
Vyasamoorthy

On 31 Mar, 17:49, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> This blog <http://www.istokpavlovic.com/blog/?p=5> confirms that it's
> causing users to spam their friends, and on-time e-mailers. There
> have even been cases where the friends were spammed even before you
> pressed "next" and accepted.
>
> But like the guys said... never give another web site your password
> except where it's appropriate and you trust it (I have all my
> frequently flier miles and car rental points collected on one site,
> but that's all they have access to, no personal data that I didn't
> already give directly to them).
>

> On 3/31/07, Ryan Morehart <moreh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just to verify, I believe that this is the case with Tagged. With some

> > frequency this list gets "you've been tagged by blahblahb...@someplace.com"

> > messages (they're killed in moderation though). The people those messages
> > come from likely had the Gmail Users email address in their contact list and
> > so unknowingly gave out the address when they gave Tagged their password.
>
> > I would not sign up for the site unless you're sure it's safe. Sending out
> > unwanted mail to your entire contact list is an unwarranted abuse of power
> > which could indicate more dangerous intentions on the company's part.
>
> > Ryan
>

[Stephen W. Browning]

this reminds me of Boxfrog Email.  They offered for no charge a 10MB inbox,.  They asked for your primary email address and then sold it to spammers.   I got so much smut that I cancelled my MSN  account and went with another ISP.  Boxfrog got caught and is now out of business.

[beth.c...@gmail.com]

Some of these sites like tagged do this for the addressbooks. If you
also had a yahoo account, they'd ask for that addressbook too. I
belong to several of these sites. Though I don't use my gmail login.
> Vyasamoorthy, P
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