Gary W. Smith wrote:
Jo, please read in entirety...
Sure.
Um, no, I unsubscribed it from a list and then received LD spam...
Therefore it's pretty much a spam gig. The solicited me first.
You filled your information into a web form ... and they solicited you?
*confused*
We aren't talking about the pretty LD emails they sent to clients.
Don't get me wrong there. In fact, those come through just fine. It's
the spams they outsource (or whatever) that come in. You know, they
ones where they misspell both mortgage and your name...
Um... tell me. Did you misspell your name when you submitted it? Then
I seriously doubt it.
The vast majority of mortgage account info come from public record
information, and that's also where most mis-spellings occur because
newspapers are too lazy to correct stuff like that. I'm not sure how
they got your e-mail (god hopes your mortgage agency didn't put your
e-mail into the public record)...
The history about this whole story is in the archives from about 18
months ago. I unsubscribed, received a crappy looking misspelled spam,
went to the simple web page with a couple form fields, filled it out,
and received lots of phone calls. For the return email address I used
some bogus yahoo account. I can understand the phone spam but no where,
and at no time, did I give them the spam email address other than the
one time "unsubscribe" (which I think was also spelled wrong at the
time).
Phone calls are more likely to be based on the public records that are
published any time you refinance.
Besides, your story is confusing. The first step is that you
unsubscribed. You unsubscribed from what? This isn't the beginning of
the story...
So this is a completely valid spam account. There's no grey area around
that one.
I can't comment on that, mostly because I don't understand your story.
It reads like it was tossed in a blender to me :-) (no insult intended,
but it is confusing as stated)
--
Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
