How is my data available to the Yanks in such a detailed form

[kes]

I, )Initial and Surname quoted here) Firearms cert holder, want to stop receiving emails from Dalia Rooney.
MARCILLO REAL ESTATE LLC, 6000 Metrowest Blvd Suite 200, Orlando, FL, 32835

3 e-mails in one day.
I unsubscribed - but how do they know this info - unless the firearms database has been hacked ?
Can anyone advise please ?

 

[mealiejimmy]

If anyone has your e mail address, and believe me there will be thousands if not millions of people/organisations who have it, then a few simple rules to follow are:
1. Never unsubscribe to any spam e mail - it just lets them know that it is a real e mail address (but you already broke this rule)
2. If you are using Microsoft Outlook then right click the title of the e mail then select "Junk E mail" and then select "Add sender to blocked senders list"
3. If that does not stop them then right click the title line, then select "create rule"
The window that opens allows you to set up a rule that will automatically junk any e mail from a sender with a specific word in their address line or in the subject line.
I'm sure other e mail programs will have similar functions

Cheers

Bruce

 

[The Grouse]

Were you part of the Guntrader data breach at all ?

 

[Miki]

America does not have the same digital privacy laws as we edo in the UK.
They get the info from eBay, PayPal, Microsoft, GMail, pretty much any source they can. It's readily available (unfortunately) but here in the UK we tend to 'not share' ...
What you should 'never' do is =unsubscribe. All you do is verify that the eMail is alive.

You should also try not to recieve HTML formatted eMails. Use 'plain text' instead. Any picture/graphic on the data collectors eMail has tracking so that they know the eMail it was sent to is active.
Follow @mealiejimmy / Bruce's advice as a minimum.

 

[NoIDeer]

Try and think where you have used that exact phrase "I, )Initial and Surname quoted here) Firearms cert holder...". That will be the source of your leak.

The company is an Orlando real estate company nothing to do with firearms so why use that term?

 

[Len the dog]

I recently bought a new laptop and with it came the first year’s subscription to McAfee, in setting it up it does a search of the web for instances of your personal data. It found information about me and showed that it was from the Guntrader breach.
Thanks to them not taking security seriously enough the underworld in every country now knows that I am/was a gun owner. Nice.

 

[kes]

Thanks folks - I do not think there is a link to the Guntrader site although I used to'look' but never bought ?
As for the exact phrase, I have never used those words, preferring as many do to avoid references of that type.
Its rather a mystery.

 

[Mike L]

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

haveibeenpwned.com

 

[scotch_egg]

Defra breach in relation to disease control that occurred in the south west a couple of years ago.

It would support your location.

 

[mealiejimmy]

Thanks folks - I do not think there is a link to the Guntrader site although I used to'look' but never bought ?
As for the exact phrase, I have never used those words, preferring as many do to avoid references of that type.
Its rather a mystery.

How they got your e mail address is irrelevant - it's now in the public domain and other than changing your e mail address there's nothing you can do to stop people/organisations sending you e mails, but you do have the power to prevent them getting to your inbox
It's not a mystery - your e mail address is available to millions of people/organisations and some of them will do a "mail merge" where they attach random e mail addresses to a standard e mail
That's what you (and almost certainly thousands of other people received - just more e mail spam - exactly the same as the unwanted junk mail that drops through your letter box with boring regularity.

Cheers

Bruce

 

[B&W FOX]

BASC sold your details, it's payback time

 

[SussexSteve]

Selling peoples data is big business in the USA

 

[kes]

BASC sold your details, it's payback time

Now it just shows - I hadnt thought of that - they did have a spell of selling data if I remember correctly ?
Nah - it cant be.

 

[trickie]

If anyone has your e mail address, and believe me there will be thousands if not millions of people/organisations who have it, then a few simple rules to follow are:
1. Never unsubscribe to any spam e mail - it just lets them know that it is a real e mail address (but you already broke this rule)
2. If you are using Microsoft Outlook then right click the title of the e mail then select "Junk E mail" and then select "Add sender to blocked senders list"
3. If that does not stop them then right click the title line, then select "create rule"
The window that opens allows you to set up a rule that will automatically junk any e mail from a sender with a specific word in their address line or in the subject line.
I'm sure other e mail programs will have similar functions

Cheers

Bruce

Bruce on the free version of Outlook there is a limit of how many address you can block. I forward some of mine to:

report@phishing.gov.uk

Sometimes it seems effective other less so. Don’t add and text just select forward, add the email address once. You will get an automated reply, if they have already received one from the sending address you’ll see the difference iN their respons.

I also use the Post Office system to block junk email. Sadly it needs renewing if you move and every 2 years. When the postman changes, I try to gently remind him.

 

[MAH]

Initial and Surname quoted here) Firearms cert holder,

Have you asked your Doctor if they have been hacked?

Lots of people will know your email address and name.
But I guess not many will know you're a FAC holder.
Even less will have a digital record in that sequence.

So if we're having a sweep stake on it, I'd be betting the leak is from your GP.


A useful tip
Create a "junk" email address. I use one for all those frustrating online things that won't let you proceed without an email address.

My real email is reserved for friends, family, banks etc

 

[Alantoo]

Open a google email account and connect only that to your phone or computer email programme...any other email accounts you have, set them to forward everything to your gmail address...it has a good spam filter system....with the swamps of spam mail that get sent all over the world there is a good bet someone will have reported the spam in Thailand and google can divert it into junk while you were still abed.

Alan

 

[kes]

Thanks all, really helpful I shall see what transpires but I have set up an alternative e-mail address which will be used for family stuff.

 

[tozzybum]

I'm on clearscore and 1 of their " freebies " is a dark Web search and touch wood so far I've not been found.
Tbh I deleted everything off any Internet search or usage I do and weekly clean/ scrub my phone memory.
But if someone unscrupulous sells your details on that email is clucked .
You do right getting a new 1

 

[Fadcode]

The best thing to do is to get an email address which you can use for browsing, keep the other email only for personal contacts, be wise on the info you put into this new email address, your age, location, hobbies etc, anything asked on a site you visit, make the info up, so that they will not bother you, if you find you are inundated with spam, etc, just stop using it, and get another email address, the quicker you realise that it is very hard to hide your personal details the better, go onto Amazon without signing in, next day you will be inundated with emails from them, unfortunately you have to be so wary nowadays, Privacy no longer exists.