Re: Spam and Telemarketer phone calls

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quote Jerry Ahrens:

I have had several pre recorded telemarketer phone calls over the past couple weeks, since I have put my name and e mail on the ”Upcoming Events” section of the AOMCI website. I included this information to advertise our MAPS chapter meets. What my concerns are here, is that the telemarketer always refers to me as a ”motor club associate”, asking me to participate in some sort of a marketing venture. This with all the spam and suspicious e mails is about to drive me nuts! I hate to take my name and e mail info down, but I may have to. Anybody else having this problem? 🙂

Jerry, I hate to say it, but removing your information from the ”Upcoming Events" will only help very little. Once they have that information they store it, especially if they have a returned email response or getting someone live on the phone. Then they share that information with their associates or sell it to their associates. Consent for this is written in very small print or found some where in the extreme filibustering of online consents when you access a site.

I still get calls from a job search website that I used from 12 years ago (Monster.com) and a hospital where I use to work. Someone was selling information like phone numbers and email address to agencies for recruitment.