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Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him
- bprater 18y agoI've got messages like that from Classmates for years. Always wondered if it was a scam or not, but never really liked anyone in school enough to pony up and check!
- vaksel 18y agoAnd in January, Member Source Media agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint about the company's spam messages that promised consumers, "Congratulations. You've won an iPod video player. only $200K? Those sites make a lot more than that, its probably a drop in the bucket for them
- trjordan 18y agoTo be fair, I've actually gotten an iPod out of sites like that. The do work - you just have to read what exactly is expected of you to get your free iPod. That said, yeah, seriously. They've sucked down a lot more money than $200k.
- chwolfe 18y agoI was expecting an Onion article.
- mattmaroon 18y agoWhile the guy is clearly in the right here, as we were joking about this at my class reunion, suing that company might be like trying to squeeze blood from a stone. Financially they're running on fumes these days.
- dangoldin 18y agoMakes you wonder how they feel about not being a facebook although they basically had all the pieces in place already. Might have been to hard for them to stop spamming users.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI imagine much the same way that Friendster feels. They REALLY had all the pieces in place.
- Raphael 18y agoThey could have easily been Facebook, but they charged for membership instead.