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It's not like this is new news, it has been going on for a decade now and yet people still put their private interests out there.
Social media creates an opportunity for people to share way to much information about their activities and their families names and locations. People are to....to realize that they are causing many of these opportunities by sharing their stories and activities on social media platforms that are not anonymous. Her grandson had posted about going to see grandma and what his itinerary was, clever aye?
Yep! The same thing happened to my uncle. His email was hacked and a man claiming to be one of my uncle’s contacts was asking him for money. My uncle didn’t give it to him.
It’s weird. I had my email hacked once too. The person who contacted me claimed to be my daughter.
I got a few e-mail solicitations from a cleaning place after I had searched for heavy duty cleaning companies (one of the reasons I don't use Google for personal searches.) It really irked me so I wrote back telling them not only to stop harassing me, but that since they contacted me w/o my consent, I would boycott them forever, and I would share their approach with others so they could boycott them as well.
I remember the power of boycotts, all the way back to the grape boycotts of the late 1960s into the early 1970s. Privacy invaders are after data and sales, so I try to cut into the latter and foil their efforts.
Another thing that irks me is that the alleged familial information is soooo wrong. The idiots who gather and compile the information have increased our family by people I never heard of, they've extended the lives of grandparents who have been deceased for 25 years (how could anyone believe that someone almost 130 years old is still living??).
I recently enjoyed the opportunity to put one of the flippers' advance scouts "off her game". I blocked my number, called back and she answered, responding to my questions on why she called as that she was looking for a house, and was getting names and addresses from Lexis-Nexis. She claimed she wasn't working for flippers (yeah, sure).
What she didn't realize is that Lexis (originally a legal database) is also a database of homes, like county registers, but it's not a for sale site.
If you learn anything on opting out of sites that you've never visited otherwise, please let me know. I think we would really have to opt-out of everything, including our e-mail providers.
What I'd like to see is a class action suit against all the sites that are collecting and compiling data, including erroneous data. But off hand, other than breach of privacy, I can't really think of grounds that would sustain a class action suit.
I have had an unlisted telephone number for 40 years but there it is clear as day on numerous websites along with names of people who did NOT live with me, or are even related :P And my current and past addresses.
I need to go through those websites and see if I can opt out that information as it is no one's business.
What concerns me is that Spouse is gullible to believe so much of what enters the home, be it door to door sellers, emails wanting contributions and phone scams like this one. :( I am glad I took the call rather than him. :)
I think this is a version of the "grandchild" calling home for money. The perpetrator pretends to be someone else, relates a fictitious predicament and need for money, then hits on the individual he/she has called to wire transfer or by other method send money to this allegedly suffering relative.
I think the perpetrators gamble on the fact that older people may not hear as well and be unable to discern that the caller isn't a relative.
I'm guessing also that if you have caller ID or a phone number showing on your phone, that it was blocked by this alleged accident victim.