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I just got a spam e-mail that quoted my home address in the subject line.  Its my ISP address and altho I get a lot of spam I don't join forums or generally buy anything using it.  I do use it for poker sites.  This happened to anyone else?  Any suggestions as to how I could find out how they got this info?

was it one of the ones mentioned here   http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22702.15     i too had my home address stated on it

yes it was -exactly that one - I wonder what site has sold on the info?

I got the same email telling me I had won $1500.  Like you, I was worried it had my home address.  Recently I have been getting a lot of spam mails mostly related to gambling.  

ok i'll try an opening gambit - anyone have a party account they asked party to close?

has anyone signed up to giantjugs.com only to cancel their subscription after finding out the site was actually about china and kitchenware?

I went to one of the parties.

Little dissappointed obv, but it was still a good time.

me too, was happy to see many of the jug buying housewives that attended did infact have big tits.

I got one with my old home address in it...not best pleased.

steady now a certain Mr Tikay has had one of these mails

and anyway was I to take up such a subscription I'd know that gmail is my friend

Are you suggesting that tikay IS'NT a fan of giant jugs?

Me too.

Me too.

Me too, although it was my old home address which I moved from before i joined Blonde.

The e-Mail says, via a graphic of a cheque, that you have won $1,500.

The text, further down, suggests the win is €500.

It would seem that a Poker Site has sold on it's Database.

It would not take many guesses to suss which Site, I imagine, but it was not blonde, please be assured.

I had it today too, by conincidence...

I'm not, as it happens. I'm pretty prevy, I confess, but big jugs.com is not in my starting hand criteria.

Big boys in Boots TK?

Eyes deffo not there either.   rotflmfao

I haven't had the email, and I have never had an account on Party...  (might just be a coincidence)

I haven't got a previous address

I don't have party, a previous address or the email yer all on about.

PARTY SCUM

imo

Tony "Pretty Pervy" Kendall has a certain ring...

 

Err, despite an eclectic range of tastes & desires, it most certainly does not encompass "rings"!

I've never had a party account

What's the subject line of the email? I'll look through my spam folder and see if I can find it. I sign up to each site with a unique email address so will be able to figure out where they got the info from.

If, by "Subject Line", you mean e-Mail "Title", it reads....

"Tony from ........ (my home address was here) your 1500 eCheck has arrived"

He means subject line.

What is a Subject Line, then?

Well I don't appear to have that email. I'd guess at a security breach/rogue staff member rather than the site deciding to sell the details themselves.

Well, I'm not sure I buy that, oh gullible one.

A Database is a very valuable asset, & I can well imagine a hard-up Online Poker Site selling theirs on for a decent lump of cash.

Or a hard-up worker for what would be, relatively speaking, a bigger lump of cash ;)

Ahh, I see. Yes, that I do buy.

I have also had two of these.

me too

I got this on the email address i use purely for poker related activities and it is my old address from about 18 months ago. So it is an old database somehow poker related.

I can think of a few Online Poker Sites have ceased to trade over the last year or two, due to poor traffic/liquidity.

As part of the closing down/tidying up process, & to optimise revenues, they may well have sold their Databases.

The majority of the email addresses I've used to sign up to poker sites have ended up in the hands of spammers some how, even the ones that are still going.

how did this thread go O/T from giant jugs to e-mails?

well i got one on an old email address with my address in it

most sites use my blondepoker.com email address

party is one of the few that doesnt along with the sites on the prima network

The only cardrooms i've signed up for using the address shown in the email are blonde, DTD, VC, BlueSq, PaddyPower, Virgin...

Yukon Gold Casino who sent me a cd in the post to my home address is apparently on the Microgaming Network. I have previously had 2 accounts on their network, Crazy Poker & Bet365, so it must be 1 of them or Microgaming itself who have sold my details on.

Only signed up with VC, Blue Sq, Gutshot, Stan James and Mansion with the email addy they used.

Sorry, yes ive had Bet365 too...

I just received the same disc in the post. 

I got sent a similar disk.  Even if I was tempted to join their site before ( which I wasn't ). It makes me 100% determined never to play there now that they irritate me at home with junk mail.  I would rather play somewhere that waits for me to contact them rather than the other way around.

 A while back a popular and well used Crypto site phoned me repeatedly over the space of a few weeks asking if I wanted to make a real money deposit. After politely telling them to leave me alone, I made a decision never to play at their site and so far I never have.  This was after clicking the 'don't contact me with news' icon when setting up the account. 

I work in database management and we constantly have to keep on shouting at our clients to not break the data protection act. Most companies don't give it much thought at all - despite the fact that, in theory at least, you can get quite hefty penalties for breaking it.

Difficult to prosecute when the company is based in another country though.

That too.

Although I don't think that if it is the poker company itself selling the data they've thought about that, I think it's more likely that they just haven't thought about data protection at all.

I just approach it with a petty childish mindset.  If they annoy me, I make myself feel better by never giving them my time again.  As I am a fish, I am sure this doesn't bother them a great deal, however it makes me feel slightly better knowing I won't be paying rake at their site.

Has to be this...I shall email them today to complain....always fun.

Make sure you send them your home address as well.

I don't think I had a bet 365 account but I have received the disc,,,,,,,


I have had accounts with microgaming but I think Ladbrokes is the only one that used that email address (there may have been another one but not certatin about this).  Also I searched 2+2 for any similar thread and couldn't find any, so it looks like a uk facing site.

 

Has anyone heard of WINDOWS CASINO?   They sent me a letter earlier talking up their site. 

The annoying thing is the fact the letter starts with "Dear Lewis" as if I am their loyal customer.   This is almost as irritating as members from political parties knocking on your door a week before election time and trying to convince you to vote for them. Is anyone actually conned by this stuff?

I had an email with an offer from the Wynn which was addressed to me as a valued guest.

I've never stayed there obv.

Are you sure it was Windows, and not Wingows? I had an account with them too under the same email addy that I completely forgot about, the site was shite.

I just did a search for reviews for Windows casino and I found out they are on the Playtech software.     

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtech