Social Network Spam: Introducing Quechup
Some of the newer social networks have looked to leverage your address book to bootstrap your friends list.
A new entrant, Quechup, seems to be taking this to a new level, by auto-spamming your entire address book without the user's knowledge. I've received a couple of Quechup requests this past week and, since I had little interest in joining yet another social net, quickly Googled the company name and saw thousands of posts equating Quechup with Spam.
There aren't too many things I could think of that would tick off a potential user faster than abusing access to their network. Quechup appears to be an offering from iDate, a Las Vegas based online dating service, whose shares are traded on the pink sheets. That's one penny stock that I wouldn't want to own right now.
For more on the Quechup spam mess, read e-Week or Boing Boing.
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