How has spam gotten hold of details

macafee2 · 23rd February 2022, 09:33

Do motor insurance companies, sell, provide access to or give away information about their customers and their accidents?

Just received a spam email to my wifes email account with her name and date of accident. Very convincing e-mail but just a couple of things rang alarm bells.

The email seems to contain details of a number of other companies, one companies name, another companies phone number etc.

How did they find out about her incident?

macafee2

trikey · 23rd February 2022, 09:44

Data is worth more than gold, yes it gets sold on, stolen or swapped between companies.

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clf · 23rd February 2022, 10:39

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Originally Posted by macafee2

Do motor insurance companies, sell, provide access to or give away information about their customers and their accidents?

Just received a spam email to my wifes email account with her name and date of accident. Very convincing e-mail but just a couple of things rang alarm bells.

The email seems to contain details of a number of other companies, one companies name, another companies phone number etc.

How did they find out about her incident?

macafee2

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Motor insurance database.

They will hold the information, whether it came from.there or not, I do not know. You could send a subject data request to both them and the company who contacted you to find out more and maybe find out how they got your info.

It is not something I have done personally but they are legally obliged to provide with all the info relating do.you within a certain time frame (28 days rings a bell), and cannot charge more than 10 pounds for it.

Search google for subject access request

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