[Rumor]

The story:

I was thinking about refinancing my car to get a lower interest rate and payment. After doing a little snooping around, I came across Roadloans.com. They seem legit and they are a sponser of NASCAR (have their own driver and team). So I submitted my information and awaited a call. No call came, but about a week later I received the documents via DHL. Needless to say, the interest rate was higher, so I tossed it.

Then came the spam. I don't know what we use at work, but it's a good spam filter. Still though, I'm getting between 2 - 5 into my junk email folder a day. I called the company to have them remove me from whatever list they put me, as I checked all the boxes stating that I did not want advertisement from thier associates and sister companies.

The people I talked to told me that the application came through some other company. I explained how I went through thier website and they are responsible for what is done with my information. They still insist that it was out of thier hands. The supervisor said the same thing.

I looked to file a complaint with the BBB, but somehow got into loop. Is there any other way to file a complaint about thier breach of privacy? Nowhere in the documentation did it say that the application went through a third party initially. It I knew that to be the case, I would not have gave them my information to begin with.

[greenG4]

Honestly 2-5 a day is pretty good. I get about 20-50 a day. That's why the Apple gods invented the Junk folder in Mail. Look for links in the email to remove you from their lists, too. Additionally, bouncing the message will help if the sender is using an application that keeps track of returned mail. As far as filing a complaint, I haven't the foggiest.

[Rumor]

That's 2 - 5 from one source, after going through our corporate spam filter. In five years, I have never had spam until going though this website.

[greenG4]

Originally Posted by Rumor 

That's 2 - 5 from one source, after going through our corporate spam filter. In five years, I have never had spam until going though this website.

Can you request the "from" email address be added to the corporate filter?

[Rumor]

It's coming from multiple addresses. I've been adding them as they come.

I'd like to report them so this doesn't happen to anyone else.

[Peter]

Speaking of Spam, just started getting the newest generation: Stocks in word documents, ridiculously hard to stop

[Mac Write]

First off don't reply, click unsubscribe links as that will confirm your e-mail address as real.

For my all my e-mail addresses (excluding .Mac) are on my domains which are on my server. I do server side filtering using ASSP (not SpamAssasin). ASSP is on in test mode and I just run a user level filter to delete all e-mail tagged as spam so it's never delivered to my mailbox.

[Rumor]

I don't have a choice since it's a corporate email account.

As for clicking unsubscribe, I never do. I just forward them to corporate.

Still wondering if there is an agency that does something about this...

[analogika]

Man, that sucks.

In Germany, you could have their balls served up on a silver platter for that violation.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Peter 

Speaking of Spam, just started getting the newest generation: Stocks in word documents, ridiculously hard to stop

Reverse DNS lookup on all incoming should sort it.

[Mithras]

Just killfile anything with a word document?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by analogika 

Man, that sucks.

In Germany, you could have their balls served up on a silver platter for that violation.

Yeah, nice, in THEORY

How the heck do you prove that they passed on your email address ?

-t

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Yeah, nice, in THEORY

How the heck do you prove that they passed on your email address ?

-t

Fairly easily since it never occured up until I applied for that loan.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Yeah, nice, in THEORY

How the heck do you prove that they passed on your email address ?

Sic the media on them. A case like this is bound to affect thousands, if not tens of thousands of people.

Penalties are severe for data privacy rights violations - provided, of course, the companies in question fall under EU jurisdiction.

[- - e r i k - -]

Is it just me or has spam got a new resurgence the last few weeks? I get ridiculously many Viagra spam (you know the one with the elephant-sized dick?), plus PDF and Word spam. Insane.

[Big Mac]

I saw a troubling up-tick in spam volume to my .Mac accounts over the last weeks, but it seems to have died down thankfully.

[TheoCryst]

It just happened to me too in Gmail, despite not having signed up for anything recently. Messages never used to get past Gmail's spam filter, but now I'm getting 3-5 a day in my inbox. Weird.