How safe is your information
habaraca
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Received this in e-mail this morning.....
Looks like event folks are SELLING our information how safe/stupid is this.....
including full mailing address!!!!!!!!!
"Hi,
We have updated Grand Rapids Area Coin Show 2019 attendees list and we now have a total of 3,124 contacts who are Attending Grand Rapids Area Coin Show 2019 event.
Would you be interested in purchasing the list of Attendees with complete contact information for pre-show and post-show marketing campaign, appointment setting, networking and various other post-show Marketing initiatives.
Data fields: Visitors Full Name, Email address Prefix First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Job Title, Full Mailing Address and Phone Number We only include opt-in contacts in our database.
Thanks & I’ll look forward to your response.
Regards,
Elisa William
Head of Event Specialist"
Comments
You are on your own.
I get several of these emails a week to my business email that all get forwarded to my junk folder.
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Not saying it is right , but, legality depends on "the small print" you agree to when you sign up.
Did you read the 3x? Pages of it???? or the 200 pages when you signed up with Google??
Sadly, an expectation of privacy is becoming increasingly naive.
This is a scam. Most likely if you call the show organizers they did not send this. Shady actors try to do this with a lot of different conventions.
You can buy this info by the gigabyte for pennies on the clear web.
No that would be an automatic delete for me. It should be free if asked for. Jmo
We only include opt-in contacts in our database.
It sounds like you have to "opt in" to have them sell your info ?
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Or the dark web............or the deep web I imagine.
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I just do not take part in those 'data banks'.... Not worth all the junk mail/email/robo-calls....Cheers, RickO
I believe the NSA is monitoring this very thread
Recycling bin.
not much different than the days of phone books (and real telephones).
I don't worry about it, I'm not really me. I've been incognito for quite some time now. Some people have dual citizenship, I have dual identification. Heck, I'll even share my phone number:
"Money does not care about speeches on morality. Capital asks whether the rules will remain the same tomorrow. With inflation, people assume price is the problem, and propose regulation—but price is simply the message." - Martin Armstrong
That’s why you have PO box, a junk email address, and a throw away or old landline phone, still got it over quarter century now and updated from micro cassette recorder to a new fangled recorder that does not take cassettes.
Always give them a junk email address to avoid spam emails like this. I call it my 'dead letter' email address. I check it periodically to clean out the emails.
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I don't doubt that some dealers sell customer lists...do you know how many freaking snail mail and email lists I'm on? I must have 30,000 unread automated messages from dealers. Cherrypick a big dealer 5 years ago and still suffering.
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