   Warning: Avoid Quetchup.com
  Last week I got an email from an industry friend of mine suggesting I join Quetchup.com.  It looked like a LinkedIn sort of thing, which I'm not really into, but this is somebody whom I don't think would send me crap so I signed up out of curiosity.  Come to find out it's a MySpace wannabe set up by an online dating company, and I was a bit confused as to why we sent me the link.This morning the website spammed my entire GMail address book, without my permission, sending an invite disguised as coming from my own address.  Come to find out, this same thing happened to the person I originally got the invite from, who in turn got an unrequested invite from another colleague... this kind of rude and invasive marketing tactic disgusts me, especially since sending an invite to a MySpace-alike to my professional contacts isn't exactly welcome conduct.Since then, I have heard from a few other industry people that they have had similar problems with Quechup.com.  The game industry is small and interconnected, so I wouldn't be surprised if these false invites start spreading widely enough to become an annoyance.Just thought I'd warn everybody on GameDev.net, if you receive an invite to Quechup.com just delete it.   
  Out of curiosity, how does it know what your Gmail address book?   ;Quote:Original post by TheUnbelieverOut of curiosity, how does it know what your Gmail address book?Yeah, this seems shady as hell.   ;Quote:Original post by RavuyaQuote:Original post by TheUnbelieverOut of curiosity, how does it know what your Gmail address book?Yeah, this seems shady as hell.I was wondering this too... =/   ;Quote:Original post by rip-offQuote:Original post by RavuyaQuote:Original post by TheUnbelieverOut of curiosity, how does it know what your Gmail address book?Yeah, this seems shady as hell.I was wondering this too... =/Yeah, it is pretty shady, and I fell for it :(It has a required "feature" when you sign up, it searches your address book to find people to invite (yes, I stupidly put in my password, but apparently alot of other people did as well which is why I'm warning people not to).  After that, it has options "Send Invites" and "Don't invite anyone, just go on to my home page".  I clicked #2, but I might as well have clicked #1 because it sent those invites out anyway.Since then I've changed my gmail password.   ;  I'm surprised that site is still running. This came up on Boing Boing over a week ago. You'd think that this site would've raised some red flags somewhere by now.   ;Quote:Original post by JBourrieyes, I stupidly put in my passwordwait wait wait...you put your Gmail password into their website? ;Quote:Original post by booleanQuote:Original post by JBourrieyes, I stupidly put in my passwordwait wait wait...you put your Gmail password into their website?JBourrie, you should have ommited that part, now you look *really* stupid.   ;  Ah, C'mon man, say it ain't so! How could you do that! Putting your Email password into a website like that! I don't care who I get a link from, I would never do something like that [sad]. Now that I think about it that must have really done some damage. I am looking at my Gmail contact list and sending an email like that to some of the people on this list would be plain awkward!   ; <--me   