Selling of marketing data VW California Club

mikeelawson

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• May 18, 2023

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Just had a call from plan.com asking if I was interested in upgrading my VF plan. I asked how they got my data and they advised VW Calafornia club. Is my data being sold for marketing purposes?

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• May 18, 2023

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mikeelawson said:

Just had a call from plan.com asking if I was interested in upgrading my VF plan. I

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Whats a VF plan?

 

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100% no your data is not being sold

 

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andyinluton said:

Whats a VF plan?

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AND WHAT IS PLAN.COM

 

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AND WHAT IS PLAN.COM

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Something to do with Business Connectivity, whatever that means.

welcome to plan.com

Connect your business, customers, and suppliers with plan.com. Our platform operates across devices, services and networks for connectivity you can trust.

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There is no way the owners of this site will sell data. Both @calikev and @Martin to my knowledge uphold the highest integrity when it comes to protecting individual's data.

 

mikeelawson

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• May 18, 2023

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andyinluton said:

Whats a VF plan?

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Vodafone, they were very specific about which site they got my phone number from. Thanks for the assurance re no selling of dara.

 

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• May 19, 2023

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You did publish your mobile number here in sept 2022.
there are software programs that search ‘scrape’ names and numbers from internet sites.

 

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WelshGas

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• May 19, 2023

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You did publish your mobile number here in sept 2022.
there are software programs that search ‘scrape’ names and numbers from internet sites.

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Agree. Safer to publish contact details as a jpg or other picture format rather than straight text which the Internet bots can collect easily.

 

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Having published your number and your handle being your full name (Eric?) it wouldn't take a brain surgeon to create a marketing list from a forum trawl. In many cases they don’t even use software, just hire cheap admin workers to trawl sites and create marketing lists.