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There was a court case against a high school alumni site that sent out "a classmate is searching for you" emails to get people to sign up:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/how-lawsuit-again...

> The case originated with two lawsuits claiming that Classmates.com had sent out millions of deceptive e-mails telling users that an old friend was trying to contact them, and had viewed their profile or signed their "guestbook." For the great majority, that wasn't true; no one at all had shown an interest in their profile. About 60 million users were contacted, and about 3 million actually took the bait, paying between $10 and $40 to Classmates.



You don't know how happy it makes me to see former annoyance-kings classmates.com referred to as a "high school alumni site." Ah, the pre-FB days.




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