SPAM WARNING - BEWARE OF QUECHUP

UPDATE: My inbox is full of email from people on my contact list who have received these bogus invitations from Quechup. I apologize for the inconvenience. See the story below:

The latest scam to hit the Internet is Quechup.com.
They are generating spam that supposedly comes from your friends.

If you receive an email from me or anyone else inviting you to join Quechup, delete the email and DO NOT Sign UP.

I received an invitation supposedly from another blogger and while I was checking the site out, Quechup may have has mailed an invitation from me to everyone in my email address book, even though I expressly requested that they should not do so.

Quechup claims to be a "social network."

It is owned by iDate and is actually some sort of dating service.
Don't go there and don't bother to check it out.
You will definitely regret it.

Comments

[June]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Jane Chin]

I got the spam invite too! Good thing I read this beforehand. I posted a warning on my site too, just in case :-)

[Steven Vore]

David, I'm glad I popped over to your blog before replying to your email (or signing up). Thanks for posting this so quickly.
-Steven

[Billy The Blogging Poet]

David,
Thanks for the heads-up. Also I'd like to invite you and your readers to join me in some good old fashioned grass roots ways to end spam. http://bloggingpoet.squarespace.com/bloggingpoetcom/2007/1/9/the-anti-spam-reserves-finally-an-end-to-spam.html

[Yvonne DiVita]

Thanks, David. I got a bunch of invites and ignored them because... I don't have time for another social networking site! Now, I'm glad I didn't open it. Have deleted all and will continue to do so.

[colleen]

I've had to ignore all the Facebook and Myspace invitations because I get so many of them. So luckily in this case, I did the same.

[Carl]

Hi David,

Thanks for posting this. I got a Quechup invite from you and another friend, and fortunately had moved them to my backlog. I can delete them now.