Check out pehub’s coverage of Tagged.com.  The short of it is that they were resorting to extremely aggressive marketing practices.  Their CEO did an interview on PEhub and said it was all a big accident, but there was a lot of evidence that suggested it wasn’t.  Now they’re getting sued.

Tagged, Mr. Cuomo alleges, illegally tried to lure new members by tricking visitors into providing their personal address books, which the company used to send out more invitations. Tagged disguised these e-mails to make it seem like a friend was inviting them to view personal photos.

via New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.