Classmates.com Paying $9.5 Million To Settle Marketing Tactics
Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday March 16, 2010 | 675 views| Add a Comment
Classmates.com is paying $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the social network is duping people to buy paid memberships. Each of the 3.16 million users with “gold” premium accounts are expected to receive $3 for receiving messages that appear to be from old classmates. But they are fake.
Classmates is also facing a potential class-action lawsuit that alleges privacy violations. The social network changed the default settings to make information more public. Classmates is owned by United Online. [MediaPost]
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