Quechup the spammer

Over the weekend, a lot of people got invites for a new service called Quechup. As with many web tools, the service asks to take a look at your address book to see how many of your friends are also on it – often social network services need a critical mass before they come useful to you.
Unlike many services thought, Quechup took it a step further – once it got access to your address book, it proceeded to email all your contacts with an invite from you. A fair number of people for caught out, such as …read more