Want Some Quechup With That Spam?: Some social network site named Quechup is wreaking havoc with people's e-mail clients by spamming your entire e-mail list if you sign up for the service and upload your contacts to see if others are also members.

That's a feature Facebook and other social networking sites use but they're not as dastardly as Quechup appears to be. People - myself included - are getting e-mails from friends asking us to join Quechup followed by e-mails from the same friend telling us this is a spam scam they've fallen victim to.

Here's one such mea culpa:

"If you got a spam 'from me' inviting you to join Quechup.com, don't do it!

If you sign up and give it access to your address book (purportedly to look for people you know who already use the service), it will then spam everybody you've ever e-mailed without asking or telling you. I thought I'd missed the fine print, but have since found out that there is no fine print telling you what will happen -- it's simply deceptive.

If you Google it, the first result is the actual site, and the rest are complaints from people far smarter and more tech savvy than I about how they got hoodwinked. Here's hoping their servers implode soon, and I'm sorry I let them put one over on me."

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