I wondered why I received several invites to Quechup all at once:
Quechup - a social networking site that starts each new subscription with anti-social spamming!
I'm interested in social networks and community sites, so I've
joined many such services, only a few of which I actually use with any
regularity. A few minutes ago, I got an invitation to Quechup and went
ahead and signed up. Unfortunately, I didn't Google their name and
check other people's comments
in advance. [I'm just back from vacation and not thinking???] Worse,
I blasted through their sign up procedure without my usual caution.
During the signup process, Quechup.com suggests it search your address
book to check if some of your email contacts have already signed up as
well, so as to give the networking process a head start. I've seen
this before and I'm usually very suspicious, but this time I acted like
a total newbie. I let them see one of my address books, in which they
found only the person who had invited me. What they didn't mention is
they immediately spam each of the addresses they got access to.
If you got such spam, I deeply apologize. I've been on-line for
years. I should know better. I do know better! What else can I say?
I'm sorry.
Luckily, I did not allow them access to my address book!
