Does PCGS Share our email addresses with partners?
jessewvu
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Why in the world am I getting emails about coins in French? Is PCGS sharing our personal information to solicitors in France via their location there?
I doubt anything nefarious is going on it’s just interesting to be getting an email in French
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I do not know
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I've been getting emails from them for years and have consistently marked them as spam only to have them resume at some point int the future. I doubt PCGS is supplying them with contact info.
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I would hope not.
I hope someone from PCGS will respond to your question. I'd also be concerned if they were selling our personal information.
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have you ever bought a coin in an internet auction? I would suspect many auction houses before PCGS
Experian and the other personal information aggregators, sift, dice, chop and align your personal data on every transaction made with electronic media plus monthly reports from every utility and every place you provide any personal information. Part of the process determines your product and service preferences, and personal habits and interests. This "mash up" is sold to thousands of legitimate and illegitimate buyers looking for more ways to peddle their goods.
"Big Brother" sits in a mindless, privately owned data center, monitored by a scruffy-whiskered 20-something with his face glued to a dumb-phone.
PS: The aggregators don't care about accuracy or truthfulness of data, and won't fix errors even when they claim they will.
I have not yet received an email from France... though I do get random offerings from other coin venues that I have never patronized or even browsed. So yes, there are those who compile and shop data.... just watch your news forums and you will see ads pop up that relate to some of your recent searches.... then it goes on from there. Cheers, RickO
Cookies in your browser.
If you use some social media like facebook it mines all the cookies and even searches stuff you've typed.
Once I refered to someone as a "pain in the butt" in a social media post, only to start getting significant numbers of ads and emails for proctologists.
I'm sure google does it too.
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It was sent to my business email address I have set up with Pcgs.
Now that I think of it, it might just be the email address listed as an authorized dealer that’s public.
It was just odd because I don’t get any spam on that account.
Never received one
Paranoia appears to be in top gear
Could be anything. Sometimes I will change/misspell part of my name to see if I can track a source of mail/e-mail spam. Sounds like an opportunity for you to get over to France and investigate further
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If you use gmail you can add extra periods to the left of the @ sign. In other words
"abcd@gmail.com" is the same as "a.b.c.d@gmail.com " so if you give out your address to someone with an extra period any spam you get with the same period came from that place sharing your address
I got this too.
Though not as funny....I once posted on FaceBook about my new Toyota Tacoma....and immediately started getting ads for businesses in Tacoma Washington.
Sometimes, they're so smart that they are stupid.....
Faceborg is one of the most relentless trackers .
I get a few e-mails now and then that point to PCGS providing my e-mail address, although I'm not sure if it's through Collector's Corner or my Collector's Club membership.
If you have your own domain name, you could give assign each e-commerce or e-mail signup place a unique e-mail address. When that address results in spam, you know where it initiated, and you can then disable it. The downside is that you have to keep track of a whole bunch of e-mail addresses, but KeePass helps with this.
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