Word of a possible spam plague is spreading! Yesterday, Reid over at Phtotodude.com posted about how registering on SpyMac.com can result in the spamming of your Gmail contacts list. According to Reid:

As part of the sign up, Step OneӔ asks you if youd like to check and see if any of your Gmail contacts are already members. In my case, it found none. So I click on ғStep Two (note, I did not click ԓInvite or ԓSpam Everyone, I clicked ԓStep Two).

It then, without obvious warning or explicit permission, spams your contact list with invites. IԒm guessing thats exactly how I got my original invite ҅ via unplanned sign-up spam.

The result? SpyMac spammed everyone in his contact list, all 600+ of them.

I have yet to register, so I don’t know what, exactly, the signup process is like. From the sounds of it, though, SpyMac just made one big PR mess for themselves.