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Subject: WARNING! And an apology! Please DELETE ANY “QUECHUP.COM” INVITE NOW! DO NOT OPEN.

From: Berington Van Campen <vcmusicorp1@...>
Date: 2007-09-05

Hello everyone!
 
I must apologize VERY much for the recent Quechup.c_m so-called “invitation.”
 
I actually did NOT send that – it is a spam thing that I received on Sunday, and found out about what it was doing Monday night. It got into MY address book, I guess by my merely looking to see what it was, and has apparently automatically e-mailed EVERYONE in one of my e-mail address books, both personal and professional contacts. Please know, I did NOT -WOULD not - make my address book available to ANYONE! Quechup acts much like a “worm” and gets in automatically.
 
Ever since, I’ve been sending this warning to all in my book, as I can. Ironically, thanks to Yahoo’s “Anti-Spam” restrictions, I can only enter so many addresses at once, and send only so many per hour. (Didn’t stop the original perpetrator!!!)  So this has taken many hours over a couple of DAYS to do. I HOPE this warning’s not too late.
 
I hope that you all realize, too, that if I’m going to contact you, it won’t be through a cheesy means like THIS! YEOW!!!
 
If you’d like, please see a link a friend sent to me – part of what alerted me to this whole thing:
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/09/spam_alert_just_say_no_to_quechup_1.html
 
At any rate, again, I apologize to you all who have received this mailing, allegedly from me. Please try to keep from opening it up. DELETE ALL YOU CAN of it, before you even investigate it further, okay? Hopefully you already have. Anyway, I’m REALLY sorry for it, and I hope it causes you no inconvenience.
 
On another note, I also hope ya had a happy Labor Day weekend!
 
All the best, and again, apologetically,
Berington


Berington Van Campen
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