{"id":651,"date":"2007-09-05T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-09-05T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T00:44:21","slug":"quechup-or-another-way-to-say-%e2%80%9ce-mail-harvesting-scumbags%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/09\/quechup-or-another-way-to-say-%e2%80%9ce-mail-harvesting-scumbags%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Quechup or another way to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153e-mail harvesting scumbags\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I suppose it had to happen some time.  I&#8217;ve been online 20+ years (yes, that means I started with CompuServe, kiddies) and I&#8217;ve finally been caught by a sort-of phishing scam.<\/p>\n<p>Or, to put it another way: Quechup.com is a bunch of e-mail harvesting, fraud promoting scumbags.<\/p>\n<p>After responding to an invite, which seemed legitimately to be an invite from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/004119.html\" title=\"Hugh MacLeod at gapinvoid.com\">someone I know and trust<\/a>, I stupidly (dumb! dumb! dumb! dumb!) gave them access to my Google address book.  Once I found out that this invite wasn&#8217;t actually from the person it proported to be from, I immediately closed my Quechup account and requested they delete all of my information from their database.<\/p>\n<p>That done, I moved along only to find out that after my account was closed Quechup chose to send invites in my name to everyone in my address book.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if my account were still open I could see this as a legitimate social network building tactic.  But my account is closed and despite their Terms of Usage this still stinks to me of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>So, I call bullshit and caution you not to respond to any of these invites.  Get an <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/wiki\/social-network-anti-patterns\">overview on the Quechup debacle<\/a>, and please accept my apologies in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I suppose it had to happen some time. I&#8217;ve been online 20+ years (yes, that means I started with CompuServe, kiddies) and I&#8217;ve finally been caught by a sort-of phishing scam. Or, to put it another way: Quechup.com is a bunch of e-mail harvesting, fraud promoting scumbags. After responding to an invite, which seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}