Think my name was sold! (wholesale)

[NYlakesider]

Somebody in the gun related outfits sold my name and address. In the last 2 days I have gotten 5 solicitations to gun magazines. I will not give their names but there all well know magazines/newspapers.

I subscribe to 1 mag and of course getting my American Rifleman It was not the other magazine sending me stuff in the last two days as I renew every 3 years with them and I have a couple years left on this go-around!

Every now in them I get stuff like this but never getting 5 in only 2 days. Got to wonder if this info is going to generate more stuff like this. Hopefully this will not generate phone calls as I get enough nuisance calls already. No cell service here so it's LL or nothing.

 

[Comrad]

When the calls start coming in, answer the phone and quietly whisper, "it's done but there's blood everywhere" and hang up.

 

[Bkreutz]

I got the same slug of 5 (or 6) different ad letters offering cheap subscriptions a couple of days ago. They all were identical except for different magazines. It's hard to say where the info leak was, could have been a number of gun related places that I buy things from. (or maybe not buy, just looking at websites is enough. I just threw them in the recycling, if they keep bugging me, then I'll think about doing something (not sure what that would be).

 

[Arik]

You guys actually pick up the phone?

 

[cougar14]

Day before yesterday, I got 4. Yesterday, I got another, along with one from AARP. Maybe it's them.

 

[zzzippper]

You're on The Grid now man, you've been outted. Welcome to the Matrix.

 

[xray97]

Yeah, I've received five in the last 3 days too.

 

[Biggfoot44]

But I can actually trace it. One previous subscription had misspelled my name , and all the new solicitations have the same mispelling.

 

[Pilgrim]

Don't be surprised if it's the NY gov finding new ways to make money.

I know the feds do/did this. Within 2 days of me getting out of the Army, I got calls saying, "now that you're out of the Army, you need....."

 

[vytoland]

solicitations...........

when the phone rings...the machine answers...
when the mail comes......they go immediately into the recycling bin....

 

[Shootbrownelk]

I'm betting that it's George Bush's fault, Him and that pesky little Cheney!

 

[galena]

Since I have caller ID that shows up on my TV screen I no longer answer any number that I do not recognize. It is a great little invention. Several years ago before I had caller ID I would just hang up. Once I pretended that I did not speak English, only Spanish. The very next day I started getting calls in Spanish. They're everywhere..............they're everywhere.

 

[shouldazagged]

You guys actually pick up the phone?

No, not unless it's a number I know. If it's important they can leave a message so I can decide if I want to talk to them. If they don't leave a message they can go attempt something anatomically unlikely.

I love caller ID.

 

[TucsonMTB]

Somebody in the gun related outfits sold my name and address. . .

Yeah, the most recent gun magazine solicitations matched the name and address spelling used when I renewed my NRA membership.

No worries . . . mailing me a solicitation just costs the sender either time or money or both.

 

[model70hunter]

I got them too.

I like calls from folks with thick accents that say my name is Bob or CHARRRRLEY. I ask to speak to their supervisor, they go on with their spiel, I then say, have this call traced, did you get it? Great. Well Bob you are under arrest, wait there we're on the way. Usually by this time there is a click. I do like finding ways to ruin their cons and days.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

I've got a Panasonic wireless phone system that hangs-up on "spam" callers automatically. It doesn't even ring. Love it.

The phone allows you to enter up to 250 spam numbers. They call once, you hit a couple of buttons, and they never ring your phone again. It saved me soooooo much frustration during the last election cycle.

Six phones, $99 dollars at SAM's. Oh, and I also like the in-house intercom feature. I don't have to bust a lung screaming for my kid to come up for supper. Now I page him.

 

[7shooter]

Precisely why I live in the cloud.

 

[roarindan]

I got 'em also.
NY State DMV sells your mailing info, as it is Public records.

 

[jackvs1]

I have not received any magazine solicitation calls, NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mstem]

I received 5 letters for the crappyest gun rags yesterday! I guess my name & address got sold also. The gun mags I get are American Rifleman, Guns Magazine, American Handgunner & Handloader. Wonder which one it was that sold my info? Wife gets American Hunter & she hasn't received anything. Yet.

 

[chaparrito]

When phone solicitations call asking for my wife I put on my best bubba voice and holler "she don't live here anymore and if you see her tell her to bring back my *** ****** remote!!"

 

[NYlakesider]

Yeah, the most recent gun magazine solicitations matched the name and address spelling used when I renewed my NRA membership.

No worries . . . mailing me a solicitation just costs the sender either time or money or both.

"I received 5 letters for the crappyest gun rags yesterday! I guess my name & address got sold also. The gun mags I get are American Rifleman, Guns Magazine, American Handgunner & Handloader. Wonder which one it was that sold my info? Wife gets American Hunter & she hasn't received anything. Yet". Quote MSTEM




Taking both posts and answering makes me wonder if it was NRA. For years just to track thing I make up a different middle initial/name when I subscribe to different magazines. None of the come-ons came in with a wrong middle initial. The NRA has right info! Cannot prove anything, but it does make you wonder!

 

[Salty RI]

I haven't been getting any phone call's but they are sending me stuff in the mail even my wife is getting catalog's from Midway, Broenells and Natchez and they even got her first name right, how they got that I don't know.

 

[VPNAVY]

FWIW - years ago I started to add a different "middle initial" to my name on magazine, contests, subscriptions, etc. It was amazing how much these companies share names (or sell) with each other. One total shock was when I contributed to a LEO related non-profit organization - I was placed on over a dozen similar non-profit organizations. Anyway - try it!

 

[model70hunter]

FWIW - years ago I started to add a different "middle initial" to my name on magazine, contests, subscriptions, etc. It was amazing how much these companies share names (or sell) with each other. One total shock was when I contributed to a LEO related non-profit organization - I was placed on over a dozen similar non-profit organizations. Anyway - try it!

Alert! Leo related non-profits are not related to LEO's.

My step son went to work for one of them in S and 1st 2 years of college. The solicitor gets 90 some percent and usually a city exec gets the money.

He said it is one of many scams his corp did. One guy that worked for me donated every year and put the sticker in his rear window thinking it would help if pulled over. WRONG on that one.

 

[vipermd]

I tend to donate to numerous LEO, VET, Wounded Warrior programs, I first request a itemized breakdown of where the money goes, how much, then I check. Last week a " wounded Vet" org called, I asked for the info and he hung up!! Be Safe,