The Ephemerist

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Hold the Quechup

I’ve moved the article about my run-in with Quechup.com to here. I didn’t want new visitors to be confronted with a full page slab of text and run away.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pm and is filed under Life, Web. The author deemed the following tags appropriate : Quechup. You can follow any responses to this entry through its very own RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

15 Responses to “Hold the Quechup”

• David Oakes
  August 1st, 2007 23:51
  1
  Don’t beat yourself up it’s not, well it *is* your fault, but there was certainly no malicious intent. And you promptly admitted it and apologized, which is far from the web status quo.

  The tree of Internet Freedom must occasionally be watered by SPAM, or something like that.

• Jan
  August 2nd, 2007 06:49
  2
  I feel exactly the same as you do and keep this blog as reference to state my apologies.
• sparehed
  August 2nd, 2007 07:41
  3
  Similar stories here :

  http://alicerobison.org/2007/05/09/gettin-hacked-by-quechup/

  http://www.werner.be/2007/8/1/quechup-not-what-social-should-be

  http://www.x-tend.be/~kb/blog/index.php?2007/07/23/414-quechup-sucks-and-violates-privacy

  http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/tag/hijack

  http://www.goodcowboy.com/blog/2006/08/please-ignore-anything-from-me-related.html

  http://www.ibert.be/2007/07/quechup-disaster.html

  Seems like this thing has been running for a while, and only now hit Belgium…

• Ess - Sibran Lens » Blog Archive » Hold the Quechup
  August 2nd, 2007 09:33
  4
  [...] A colleague and his story about Quechup, read his article. [...]
• Alice Robison
  August 2nd, 2007 23:53
  5
  Thanks for pointing me to your piece about it. I was glad to see that others had the same horrendous experience and felt just as violated as I did. The embarrassment of it is the *worst.* Ex-boyfriends, ex-bosses, ex-friends… Ugh.

  Assholes.

• Hayley
  August 24th, 2007 16:11
  6
  I decided to do a search on quechup.com and have been amazed at the amount of blogs from various people moaning about Quechup sending invites to all their contacts in address books. I dont know about most people but i read things before i do anything and it clearly states when you check your address book that they are sending invites out to friends that arent on Quechup, and you give them permission to do it. So for all you moaners read next time.
• blah
  August 30th, 2007 15:40
  7
  Hayley has posted the exact same comment on about 10 different sites. Who wants to bet that his IP resolves to quechup.com?
• Jeff Herz
  August 30th, 2007 16:31
  8
  I just got burned by this last night. Exact same situation. If there is any investigation into legal ramifications, I would be willing to participate.

  I have also used the text of your original post, since it exactly summarizes my feelings on this issue.

  I am livid, as well as a bit embarrased to have falled into a trap, that I should have known better than to have fallen into

  Jeff

• macarthur antigua
  August 30th, 2007 21:13
  9
  Thanks for posting this. I also just got stung, and your post was so eloquent, I had to adapt it to send to my list. Thanks so much.
• Barry Campbell
  August 31st, 2007 22:52
  10
  Same thing happened to me.

  http://enrevanche.blogspot.com/2007/08/little-quechup-on-your-spam.html

• SinisterPurpose
  September 2nd, 2007 05:35
  11
  I just fell for this. I feel like a moron. That is all.
• Arian Ardie
  September 2nd, 2007 07:39
  12
  Looking at some of the other blogs I found that the quechup.com site is owned by idatecorp.com people. Still researching Idatecorp further, but here are the listed owners/managers of the quechup.com site.

  And if you want to contact these spammers, here are the email addresses of the people who own and run the site:

  mark@idatecorp.com
  glen@idatecorp.com
  audreyr@idatecorp.com
  paul@idatecorp.com
  justin@idatecorp.com

  Cheers,

  Arian

• Peter
  September 14th, 2007 11:46
  13
  I would love also to join any legal action against these people.
• Fat Lotus
  September 19th, 2007 22:47
  14
  I got an invitation from my college professor.

  I was lucky, and immidiatly sniffed scam.

• Fat Lotus
  September 19th, 2007 22:56
  15
  Hey! Heyley IS quechup!

  Click on his name! “His” website is Quechup!

  Caught red-handed!

  (Sorry about the double posting)

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