lifechooser
Dormant account
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2006
- Location
- Southampton, UK
Whenever I hand over my email address, I always use the format theircompanyname@mydomain.com, so that when I recieve spam I know who has sent it, or sold my details, or generally broken their own privacy rules.
Before this year, I'd only ever caught one company out, the BBC of all people. This year I've had a couple of companies selling my details when they shouldn't, and one magazine who admitted a security breach, and gave me a free subscription in compensation.
On top of that however, I have now had spam emails sent to five different addresses that I have only ever used to register at casinos with.
3 were related (same casino software, same spam), and the casino admitted in confidence that it was a breach of security by one of their support staff. At one point the manager of one of the casinos phoned and wanted me to testify in court against that person. I agreed, but haven't heard anything since, despite chasing.
Another was earlier in the week. My email to support was forwarded to security, and the casino guarantees not trading or giving out of email addresses. I will chase this today until I get a satisfactory response.
The final one happened this morning and was the straw which broke the camels back. I have yet to email the casino in question, but it won't be a friendly email.
All five casinos involved are highly reputable, popular casinos. All spam emails are the sort that wouldn't get past the lamest spam filter, and link to sites I've never heard of with way to good to be trusted 500% bonuses to new US players. All casinos guarantee privacy and not to sell or disclose details to third parties.
For now, I'm not going to name names, unless casinomeister thinks that I should. What I want to know is how well I should trust casinos? They have lots of personal details from me, including credit cards, neteller and bank details, and security questions such as my mothers maiden name. I'm getting extremely worried and tempted to phone up most of them to ask for my accounts to be deleted, leaving only a one or two to play at regularly.
I also wanted to bring this to everyone's attention on here, and hopefully to hear from some reps about what security they have in place and vetting of staff to prevent breaches such as these.
Before this year, I'd only ever caught one company out, the BBC of all people. This year I've had a couple of companies selling my details when they shouldn't, and one magazine who admitted a security breach, and gave me a free subscription in compensation.
On top of that however, I have now had spam emails sent to five different addresses that I have only ever used to register at casinos with.
3 were related (same casino software, same spam), and the casino admitted in confidence that it was a breach of security by one of their support staff. At one point the manager of one of the casinos phoned and wanted me to testify in court against that person. I agreed, but haven't heard anything since, despite chasing.
Another was earlier in the week. My email to support was forwarded to security, and the casino guarantees not trading or giving out of email addresses. I will chase this today until I get a satisfactory response.
The final one happened this morning and was the straw which broke the camels back. I have yet to email the casino in question, but it won't be a friendly email.
All five casinos involved are highly reputable, popular casinos. All spam emails are the sort that wouldn't get past the lamest spam filter, and link to sites I've never heard of with way to good to be trusted 500% bonuses to new US players. All casinos guarantee privacy and not to sell or disclose details to third parties.
For now, I'm not going to name names, unless casinomeister thinks that I should. What I want to know is how well I should trust casinos? They have lots of personal details from me, including credit cards, neteller and bank details, and security questions such as my mothers maiden name. I'm getting extremely worried and tempted to phone up most of them to ask for my accounts to be deleted, leaving only a one or two to play at regularly.
I also wanted to bring this to everyone's attention on here, and hopefully to hear from some reps about what security they have in place and vetting of staff to prevent breaches such as these.