{"id":245843,"date":"2010-01-29T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/29\/tagged-com-wins-201975-in-default-judgment-against-spammer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:32:30","slug":"tagged-com-wins-201975-in-default-judgment-against-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245843","title":{"rendered":"Tagged.com Wins $201,975 In Default Judgment Against Spammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social networking company Tagged.com<\/a> has been awarded more than $200,000 in a default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who spammed thousands of Tagged members by sending them unsolicited messages with links to an adult dating website. <\/p>\n

In a ruling issued earlier this week, a U.S. District Court Judge in the northern district of California found Vogeler guilty of sending messages to 6,079 Tagged users and assessed damages of $25 per violation for a total of $151,975. Court also ordered Vogeler to pay Tagged $50,000 in attorneys’ fees and to cease sending commercial emails through Tagged.com.<\/p>\n

More information is expected to be shared on the Tagged blog<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n

Tagged, which has raised close to $14 million<\/a> in venture capital to date, claims over 80 million registered users worldwide. <\/p>\n

Ironically, the social networking company has itself been the subject of numerous customer complaints for sending deceptive bulk mail since its inception in 2004, and is regarded as a phishing and spamming site by some consumer anti-fraud advocates.<\/p>\n

In November 2009, Tagged settled<\/a> a court case with Texas and the New York Attorney General over its practices, paying $750,000 in penalties<\/a>. As part of the settlement, Tagged has adopted privacy reforms and altered its invitation processes.<\/p>\n

Tagged co-founder and CEO Greg Tseng<\/a> was previously co-founder and CEO of Internet startup incubator Jumpstart Technologies<\/a>, which in March 2006 was fined $900,000<\/a> for alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, then the largest ever penalty for illegal spam.<\/p>\n

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Social networking company Tagged.com has been awarded more than $200,000 in a default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who spammed thousands of Tagged members by sending them unsolicited messages with links to an adult dating website. In a ruling issued earlier this week, a U.S. District Court Judge in the northern district of California found Vogeler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}