Washington AG Demands Online Romance Site Halt "__ is Looking for You" Emails


Seattle PI reports that "State Halts Ads from Online Matchmaker":
Users of several social networking sites were shown advertisements made to look like incoming messages, said Paula Selis, senior counsel for the state Attorney General's Office's high-tech consumer protection unit. Users were told a "crush" in their area was looking for them, then routed through a series of prompts ending with a demand that they sign up for a mobile phone text messaging service to see their nonexistent "crush."
The site referenced in the article is called "MyLuvCrush".  Sounds like what Classmates is alleged to have done wrong.
 
Posted by Venkat at 11/17/2008 11:35 PM
Categories: Spam, Consumer, Social
 
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