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diabeticman (1,349 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:24 AMHow does a company know our new address?In our new place the mail boxes are outside in this out door box like container that has little sections for each apartment. Since most of the utilities are included in the rent we have very little mail. So today I checked the box since it hadn't been checked in a couple days. In the mail was a flier addressed to my wife from AT&T. It was one of those Come back and use our cell phone service. Here is the thing. My wife and I use pre-paid cell phones. This time last year we did get two AT&T pre-paid phones but stop using the service when their claims fell short. So by Jan we where looking for new cell phones. Now here is the deal We went for this T- Mobile family plan unfortunately this plan is tied to Wal-mart something we didn't find out until after fact. Now here is the thing before leaving AT&T we moved from our first place to the second place AND we just moved to this third place 3 months ago. This flier did not have resident but my wife's name. They where sending it directly to her. Now she has noticed when she used her current phone it does say AT&T on the her phone when it looks for a signal. BUT she has a simple flip phone. Refuses to have a smart phone. She doesn't want that type of phone. even though her flip phone hardly ever gets a signal in parts of town and it is so old looking. BUT what she was asking is how can they possibly know her address and yes we know T-mobile has connection with AT&T but we both realized that neither one of us has changed our billing address for T-Mobile since the bill is text to us.
geckosfeet (9,372 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:29 AM1. You can't be serious. They probably know what color your rooms are painted.That kind of information is available to anyone with a broadband connection. That would of course, include AT&T. I mean, the NSA goes to the phone companies for information.
diabeticman (1,349 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:34 AM3. It is very unsettling.
zbdent (35,312 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:31 AM 2. Well before Presidents were supposed to be responsible for the actions of those under him(say, before 1/20/2009) ... there was a President who just had to ask companies for all their data, and they would turn it over to the government. No questions asked, no warrant required. Oh, there were a couple of companies who were concerned about the privacy of their customers, but they were deemed unpatriotic and in league with the terrorists. Ministers would suggest their flock boycott said companies. But then, after say, 1/20/2009, people started getting upset about all that "big gummint getting into the daily lives" of people. Maybe they requested a search by the NSA for a "missing person", similar to what was done when a bunch of Democrats left the "great state of Texas" to keep some bad legislation being put into law?
Tripper11 (3,554 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:34 AM4. when I worked in news in the stateswe used http://accurint.com/ to track people down. It's a massive data base that's tied to Lexus Nexus. You can pretty much get anything you want here....all addresses, current and past, any property one might own, relative connections, work history...dating as far back as the first time you got a job or registered for something. At the time, it cost $5 per search, it might have been bumped up since then, but it was truly amazing and scary the information they have on there and the access one can have to that information.
diabeticman (1,349 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:39 AM5. I think I will keep this info from my wife. She is already screaming about the NSA stuff.
nadinbrzezinski (128,277 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:40 AM6. YupAnd they are not the only ones. There are new pups in the mill that are just as scary. The byte is impressive. Though if an error shows in one...it spreads.
There you go.She knows this year's voting has wrapped up.
1. You can't be serious. fraksolich probably knows what color your rooms are painted.That kind of information is available to anyone with a broadband connection. That would of course, include franksolich. I mean, the NSA goes to franksolich for information.
diabeticman (1,349 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:24 AMHow does a company know our new address?
diabeticman (1,349 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:24 AMHow do Bill Collectors know our new address?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024180071nadinbrzezinski (128,277 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 10:40 AM6. YupAnd they are not the only ones. There are new pups in the mill that are just as scary. The byte is impressive. Though if an error shows in one...it spreads.
Nadin is telling us there is a dog factory that is raising retarded, biting dogs and some escape into the population?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024180071Oh my.And I shut off the ParGen, the primitive paranoia generator, a month ago.You voted for it, pal.
Oh, that was you. Well, I had noticed it was off, and turned it back on, three weeks ago.
Oh Noes!Ya know. the OP is RIGHT! Penile Enhancement companies keep finding my email address?How can they know?!!! I change emails and they find me again!!!11!!!11!!!
