An uptick in Coin Dealer spam and TeleMarketers.

keets

Have you noticed a recent increase in TeleMarketer calls hawking Gold and "Investment" coins along with spam or other unwanted e-mails from Coin Dealers?? In the past month alone I seem to have gotten more of both than in the previous 1-2 years. Just this morning I added a California dealer to my e-mail blocked list because he continues to use my address to promote stupid crap.

Has anyone else noticed these things??

Al H.

ricko

I was getting these calls two years ago and finally made them stop.....the emails stopped then as well. Turned out that the reason I got on their list was I responded to one online inquiry about gold coins... then they shared my information through list selling. Was really irritating for a while. Al, I imagine you have much more exposure having worked in the coin business... Cheers, RickO

PerryHall

@ricko said:
I was getting these calls two years ago and finally made them stop.....the emails stopped then as well. Turned out that the reason I got on their list was I responded to one online inquiry about gold coins... then they shared my information through list selling. Was really irritating for a while. Al, I imagine you have much more exposure having worked in the coin business... Cheers, RickO

This is why I stopped giving to most charities. Your name winds up on a "sucker list" which gets sold to other charities and then you are bombarded by charity solicitations.

Jimnight

For sure!

Cougar1978

Yes like an increasing background radiation.

291fifth

I was out of town last week from Sunday until Friday afternoon. I decided to take a break from the emails during that period.
When I got back I had 94 emails waiting to be opened. I deleted 92 of the 94 without bothering to open them,

None were from coin dealers. The last time I got a call from a coin telemarketer I simply told him I was no longer in the coin market and had no interest in what he was selling. I haven't gotten any more coin related calls or emails since.

TwoSides2aCoin

Target marketing. Welcome to the world today. I find myself doing Google searches for leprechauns and unicorns, just to throw the data mining programs off.

Now, I will likely see one of these minting facilities create the new colorized unicorn and leprechaun coins, and market them to me. Sigh.

keets

Joe, you inadvertently screwed yourself. Leprechauns are associated with rainbows and the pot-o-gold waiting at its end, I am sure the TeleMarketing algorithms have that figured in and are dialing you up as we speak!!

Namvet69

Problem is retailers sell their customer lists for some scratch. Your contact info is not yours anymore. Peace Roy

Smudge

Never answer a political poll. I made that mistake and the phone is ringing off the hook.