Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that company again.

I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who (apparently) sold my
and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few weeks ago I
was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google put Swinton
down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this company again and
also will actively warn others from doing the same.
If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or quickly go out
of business

On 05/09/2012 12:42, Phil L wrote:
Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that company again.

I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who (apparently) sold my
and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few weeks ago I
was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google put Swinton
down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this company again and
also will actively warn others from doing the same.
If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or quickly go out
of business


Funny you should mention Swinton. I also got emails to my "Swinton"
exclusive address. But to be fair to them, after I contacted Swinton,
they got in touch with their "partners" and subsequent emails to that
address stopped.

Its annoying that Parts 4 Tools can't even be bothered to answer any
complaint related emails.

"Phil L" wrote in message
...
: Fredxx wrote:
: Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts
4 Tools?
:
: I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional
phishing
: email and spam to this address.
:
: Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that
company again.
:
: I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who
(apparently) sold my
: and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few
weeks ago I
: was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google
put Swinton
: down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this
company again and
: also will actively warn others from doing the same.
: If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or
quickly go out
: of business

I'm with you on that. As we own a couple of domains every company
we contact gets it's own reply to - screwfix@ swinton@ etc and
there is no catchall on the domains.

It therefore stands to reason that any contact I get on (say)
swinton@ has to have been passed on by swinton (or whoever).

Also never give out my phone number, we use a YAC number on
permanent answerphone. There's a bunch of PPI shysters in
Manchester that spend a fortune ringing that number.

Regards,

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:48:40 +0100, Fredxx wrote:

On 05/09/2012 12:42, Phil L wrote:
Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that company again.

I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who (apparently) sold my
and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few weeks ago I
was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google put Swinton
down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this company again and
also will actively warn others from doing the same.
If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or quickly go out
of business


Funny you should mention Swinton. I also got emails to my "Swinton"
exclusive address. But to be fair to them, after I contacted Swinton,
they got in touch with their "partners" and subsequent emails to that
address stopped.

Good job I never gave an email address to Swinton. I won't deal with
them because they completely screwed up my breakdown insurance one
year and still kept cold calling me daily, despite me telling them to
F*** OFF.
--
(\__/) M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?

On 05/09/2012 12:48, Fredxx wrote:
But to be fair to them, after I contacted Swinton, they got in touch
with their "partners" and subsequent emails to that address stopped.

me too

I've had other responses though - Which? magazine apologised, and said
their database had been stolen; a couple of others have denied that
there could have been a problem at all, and insisted it was my end.

Andy

On 05/09/2012 12:30, Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Yes, about 50% of the spam I receive is to an exclusive partsfortools
address. They may have sold their address list but I suspect it's more
likely they have had a virus which has harvested their address book.

Either way they won't be getting any of my business again.

Biggles

On 07/09/2012 18:50, Biggles wrote:
On 05/09/2012 12:30, Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Yes, about 50% of the spam I receive is to an exclusive partsfortools
address. They may have sold their address list but I suspect it's more
likely they have had a virus which has harvested their address book.

Either way they won't be getting any of my business again.

Biggles


I've already written to the ICO but they say it must be a coincidence!!

The list may well have been harvested surreptitiously, but either way an
apology is due, not dumb silence.

In article , Fredxx
writes
On 07/09/2012 18:50, Biggles wrote:
On 05/09/2012 12:30, Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Yes, about 50% of the spam I receive is to an exclusive partsfortools
address. They may have sold their address list but I suspect it's more
likely they have had a virus which has harvested their address book.

Either way they won't be getting any of my business again.

Biggles


I've already written to the ICO but they say it must be a coincidence!!

Don't accept that kind of bull****, if you gave them something like
as an email address and received spam on
that address then there is little to argue about in terms of it being a
coincidence.

It's not unusual to get fobbed off at first as they don't have time to
read all complaints fully but if you persevere and make it clear that
the address was created exclusively for contact with that supplier and
was not used elsewhere then those sorts of arguments tend to crumble
away.

As time has gone by I have got smarter and have added the date of my
first contact with the company to the email address so it is now
. With that kind of detail it's
difficult to argue coincidence.

Here's a few names from the top of my spam **** list:

Choice Stationery
Any member of the Bentham group of companies:
Morgan Computers
IJT Direct
making-it-green
Cartex etc

and worst of the lot:
Moneybookers the credit card processing agency

all worth avoiding if you can.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

On 08/09/2012 15:06, fred wrote:
In article , Fredxx writes
On 07/09/2012 18:50, Biggles wrote:
On 05/09/2012 12:30, Fredxx wrote:
Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing
email and spam to this address.

Yes, about 50% of the spam I receive is to an exclusive partsfortools
address. They may have sold their address list but I suspect it's more
likely they have had a virus which has harvested their address book.

Either way they won't be getting any of my business again.

Biggles


I've already written to the ICO but they say it must be a coincidence!!

Don't accept that kind of bull****, if you gave them something like
as an email address and received spam on
that address then there is little to argue about in terms of it being a
coincidence.

It's not unusual to get fobbed off at first as they don't have time to
read all complaints fully but if you persevere and make it clear that
the address was created exclusively for contact with that supplier and
was not used elsewhere then those sorts of arguments tend to crumble away.

As time has gone by I have got smarter and have added the date of my
first contact with the company to the email address so it is now
. With that kind of detail it's
difficult to argue coincidence.

Here's a few names from the top of my spam **** list:

Choice Stationery
Any member of the Bentham group of companies:
Morgan Computers
IJT Direct
making-it-green
Cartex etc

and worst of the lot:
Moneybookers the credit card processing agency

all worth avoiding if you can.

I do precisely the same thing regarding email addresses I give out. The
thing is that some spammers are wise to this and I did get a single spam
email sent to landregistry.gov.uk@my_domain_name, so coincidences do
occasionally happen.

In this case there is evidence to another person that Parts 4 Tools have
given out someone else's email address, plus I get at least one spam per
week to my Parts 4 Tools email address.

Fredxx :
In this case there is evidence to another person that Parts 4 Tools
have given out someone else's email address

Or someone might have stolen the address from them. An (ex-?) employee,
for instance.

I've had spam from addresses that I've given only to a single reputable
organisation, which I think would be most unlikely to give out the
address, but is quite capable of having lax security.

--
Mike Barnes

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:22:08 +0100, Fredxx wrote:

--snip--

I do precisely the same thing regarding email addresses I give out. The
thing is that some spammers are wise to this and I did get a single spam
email sent to landregistry.gov.uk@my_domain_name, so coincidences do
occasionally happen.

I always add a random number to the email address to reduce the
possibility of a coincidence.

Complaining to the ICO seems a waste of time since they take about a
year to 'investigate' and then all they do is ask the company to
remove your address. Since I get spams from totally new companies
every day this process is pointless.
--
(\__/) M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?