[Air-L] Quechup invites....beware

Emma Duke-Williams emma.dukewilliams at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 15:20:13 PDT 2007


I guess this is calling out for a research project ... how many people
let Quechup email all their contacts vs. those who use the "I've not
got an address book" option... and then how long people keep the
account for...

Emma

On 04/09/07, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org> wrote:
>
> I'm hearing reports that these Quechup invites are a phishing expedition in
> disguise, or at least a VERY bad way of creating social networking.  So I'm
> passing this along as an FYI given that I just saw one such invite hit the
> AOIR listserve:
>
> According to one report,
>
> http://mashable.com/2007/09/02/quechup/
>
> " The issue lies with their ³check for friends² form: during signup you¹re
> asked to enter your email address and password to see whether any of your
> friends are already on the service. Enter the password, however, and it will
> proceed to mail all your contacts without asking permission. This has led to
> many users issuing apologies to their friends for ³spamming² them
> inadvertently. Hopefully the bad PR on this one will force them to change
> the system."
>
> Add'l coverage:
>
> http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/09/spam_alert_just_say_no_to_q
> uechup_1.html
>
> http://blogs.nmss.com/communications/2007/08/no-quechup-plea.html
>
> Just a FYI.
>
> Cheers
>
> -Rick
> Infowarrior.org
>
>
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