SRS 2.0

I sit on a few listservs, typically these are places in where school educators talk about a variety of issues that are beneficial to a wide number of people. As I was going through emails on Wednesday, I came across an invitation for Quechup sent by one of the listserv subscribers. It was a bit odd and suspicious, but then a few minutes later, another email came across saying to delete any and all emails coming from this site. We had been spammed.

I recognize that many of St. Raphael’s students and alumni are interested in the new wave of “social networking” sites- MySpace, Facebook, Hi-5, Xanga, etc. (you can find a list of many on Wikipedia). However, I wanted to give you a heads up to what exactly Quechup is, in the simplest of forms Quechup takes your addresses in your address book and then quickly sends information to all of your contacts, creating a many emails being sent

You can read more about Quechup in Wesley Fryer’s blog: Beware of Quechup Spam Scam