[LINK] beware Quechup

[andrew clarke]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:37:23PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:

> As with many social networking sites, Quechup allows you to import your
> address books during registration - especially from webmail services (eg,
> enter your Gmail username/password and we'll import your contacts). There
> is nothing wrong with it doing this - you've authorised it by giving it
> the relevant details.
> 
> The problem with Quechup is that they then proceed to spam all of your
> contacts - from you - with an email suggesting that they join up as well.
> This is done without your knowledge or approval.

Gmail will often store the address of a mailing list in its address
book, if you regularly post to that list.  The result is that Quechup
has sent invite-spam to some mailing lists.

Regards
Andrew