DON’T DRINK THE QUECHUP!
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I am sure that you have heard about this already, but I want to reiterate, do not be fooled by an email invite from anyone about this offensive site that hijacks your email address book. I drank the Quechup and for my efforts, every one of my email contacts received an email invite from me. This means EVERYONE. Weight Watchers, Google and Dell all got invites for me. I’m sure they’re pleased with that. Of course those were no-reply addresses. My kids’ teachers and coaches all got them. So did my family members. Oh well, they all think I am crazy anyway. No harm, no foul. Anyway, if you got an “invite from Shelli”, delete it. I’m sorry if you clicked on it and signed up and now they have hijacked your email address book.
If you want to read more about it, here are two good blog entries about it:
September 9th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I’m glad that I’ve been out of pocket today because I’d probably would have “drank the koolaid” too. Thanks for the info.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
By the way, I saw this advice somewhere:
Instead of deleting the email, Mark it as spam, which means eventually Gmail will direct these invites automatically to the spam folder.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Shelli – You weren’t the first person to send me an invite, so I knew what to do with it.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am
i dunno. Without the panties, I just cannot bring myself to believe you are really Shelli…..
September 10th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Glad I read the explanation before the invite. I won’t join any new community this year, it’s getting weird…=:)
September 10th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Thanks for the shout-out, Shelli!
Like I told you, I fell for it, too, but for some reason, it seems they weren’t able to highjack my email. Maybe they didn’t think I was cool enough to bother with, lol.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Hey, it happens to most of us at one time or another!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Thanks so much for the linky love to my post on DC Metro Moms! Like you, everyone in my address book got an invite. Quechup sucks. I’m putting an addendum on my post and adding the CEO and VP’s email addy’s and demanding they send out an apology to my list. Why should I have to clean up their mess?????
I am hating on them. Bigtime!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:02 am
That really sucks. I am getting to the point where I am not signing up for stuff anyway. I have too much out there that I don’t use. LOL
September 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Hey Hon! Deleted it. Shit happens. No problem! Muah
September 10th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I’m sure their pleased with that.
Should be they’re. Go back to third grade, Mom.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Dude, don’t worry about it. Shit happens. I delete them anyway. Oops. I probably shouldn’t said that outloud huh?
September 11th, 2007 at 4:20 am
I can’t believe they were able to get ahold of your address book. I guess that’s how all of those worms get around the ‘nets.