Spam from parts4tools.co.uk

[Fredxx]

Does anyone else get spam to an email address given to Parts 4 Tools?

I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing email and spam to this address.

[Phil L]

Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that company again.

I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who (apparently) sold my and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few weeks ago I was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google put Swinton down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this company again and also will actively warn others from doing the same. If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or quickly go out of business

[Fredxx]

Funny you should mention Swinton. I also got emails to my "Swinton" exclusive address. But to be fair to them, after I contacted Swinton, they got in touch with their "partners" and subsequent emails to that address stopped.

Its annoying that Parts 4 Tools can't even be bothered to answer any complaint related emails.

[Him & Her]

4 Tools? : >

: > I gave an exclusive email address and now have the occasional phishing : > email and spam to this address. : : Never used them but it would be an excuse to never use that company again. : : I once had a quote for car insurance from Swinton, who (apparently) sold my : and lots of others' details on to ppi claims companies - a few weeks ago I : was bombarded with calls from these pricks and a brief google put Swinton : down as the culprit, as a result I will never contact this company again and : also will actively warn others from doing the same. : If everyone adopted this attitude, firms would soon learn, or quickly go out : of business

I'm with you on that. As we own a couple of domains every company we contact gets it's own reply to - screwfix@ swinton@ etc and there is no catchall on the domains.

It therefore stands to reason that any contact I get on (say) swinton@ has to have been passed on by swinton (or whoever).

Also never give out my phone number, we use a YAC number on permanent answerphone. There's a bunch of PPI shysters in Manchester that spend a fortune ringing that number.

Regards,

[Mark]

Good job I never gave an email address to Swinton. I won't deal with them because they completely screwed up my breakdown insurance one year and still kept cold calling me daily, despite me telling them to F*** OFF.

[Andy Champ]

I've had other responses though - Which? magazine apologised, and said their database had been stolen; a couple of others have denied that there could have been a problem at all, and insisted it was my end.

Andy

[Biggles]

Yes, about 50% of the spam I receive is to an exclusive partsfortools address. They may have sold their address list but I suspect it's more likely they have had a virus which has harvested their address book.

Either way they won't be getting any of my business again.

Biggles

[Fredxx]

I've already written to the ICO but they say it must be a coincidence!!

The list may well have been harvested surreptitiously, but either way an apology is due, not dumb silence.

[Mike Barnes]

Fredxx :

Or someone might have stolen the address from them. An (ex-?) employee, for instance.

I've had spam from addresses that I've given only to a single reputable organisation, which I think would be most unlikely to give out the address, but is quite capable of having lax security.

[Mark]

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I always add a random number to the email address to reduce the possibility of a coincidence.

Complaining to the ICO seems a waste of time since they take about a year to 'investigate' and then all they do is ask the company to remove your address. Since I get spams from totally new companies every day this process is pointless.