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On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Tony Sumner wrote:
I had one of these calls. She said her name was 'Nancy' and told me I had a Trojan. I said 'I don't use Windows' and told her that proved she was a b. liar. She got quite upset and said no I was the liar for saying I don't run Windows and hey I realised that I have a laptop that does have windows on it and it seems likely that she did have access to MS information. She also knew my address. A web site I looked at said that they tend to target older people (like me) so they may have a source of information that includes age and address.
I'd be surprised if it was age, however, name, address and phone number aren't that hard to get hold of - it's called a phone book.
Then there is the register of electors - did you opt out to their sales list (which anyone can buy), last time the letters came through? (Did you notice it's changed from opt-in to opt-out?)
There are probably others too - data is valuable and people will sell your data for as much money as they think they can get for it - when it's OK for them to do so - read the small print and make sure you opt out of anything...
We're ex directory and TPS registered. I've had one cold call this year, and technically it wasn't a cold call, it was a "marketing call" from a company who I currently buy product off (or one of their subsiduarys)
But maybe I'm just lucky... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq