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Originally Posted by oblonsky
A few years ago when I was a VM customer (on BT now) I started to get a large amount of spam, so I created a new email address and it was fairly unique and personal to me. After a while, that too got a large amount of spam, so I created a new email address, something along the lines of agkf72hd9@virgin.net.
When this started to get spam I accused VM of harvesting customer email addresses, which they obviously denied. Well their BB (non cable) service was getting really bad by then so I jumped ship to BT.
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Anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that the customer data is already in the public domain, even though VM won't admit it. The minute they shipped data oversees (if indeed they did) is the time everything went on the open market. |
This, sadly, doesn't surprise me. When my husband signed up with NTL years ago, they got confused with his double-barrelled surname and made a slight typo in the spelling which they've never corrected. Despite explicitly ticking all the relevant boxes refusing consent for his info to be passed to third parties, my husband has regularly received junk mail addressed to this mis-spelt name. No prizes for guessing who sold his personal details.
