Monday, September 10, 2007

Say NO to Quechup

If you receive an email invitation to join a new social networking site called Quechup... even from someone you know and trust... do not do it!   As social networking websites continue to increase rapidly, the need to be tech-savvy and aware of online scams grows more important. 

This is how it works:  Unsuspecting folks receive an invitation from someone they know to go check out this new social networking site, and they register.  As part of the registration process, they are asked to enter their email address & password to "find out if any of their friends are also Quechup users."  Well... Quechup, in an effort to get more users, sends an invitation to everyone in that person's address book without them even knowing.  The email appears to come from that person, not Quechup. 

This site has serious ethical problems in how it recruits new users.  Don't go for it, and if you already have, delete your account and change your email password.

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