Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

Further to my Quetchup blog post on Saturday, I sent this morning:

To: privacy@idatecorp.com

CC: http://www.stauber.com/lawoffices/

Dear iDateCorp,
I would just like to point out that the actions of your website quetchup.com to hijack the address books of your users and use the entries to falsify further invitations is:

1) a violation of decency
2) theft
3) classified as phishing (passing off)

2) and 3) are a criminal acts. 1) alone is enough to sink your firm’s reputation and to put into jeopardy those of your directors.

iDateCorp company is receiving a great deal of bad press due to this activity. See my blog post on it and others: 1 , 2

I don’t know whether it is to late to avoid a class action lawsuit but it is my opinion that you should cease and desist immediately and seek legal counsel.

Respectfully,
Martin Cleaver

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Martin@Cleaver.org MSc MBA
+1-416-786-6752

In my opinion, this could well become a landmark legal case that sets out not only new law but also safeguards.

For instance, how come sites can actually masquerade the email as coming from a third party? The inbound mail programs should alert, the owner of the email address should get to veto, etc.

Technorati : idatecorp, legal, phishing, quetchup

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