i-allow: selling your info

bcfc1710

house_mum wrote: »

85p here
Did you say you had lots of intended purchases?

Just 1 a laptop, will do a few more tonight.

geordie_joe

Mr_Oink wrote: »

MSE Rose seems to be saying they are 'verified' in some way - so make your own mind up.

She's only say they have been verified as working for/owning that company or are authorised to speak for the company.

She is not saying anything about the company it's self.

Radshire

I see that this has made the weekly newsletter.

For those that opted out of the Royal mail span - did you get any which 'slipped through the net'.

Is it possible to receive emails ONLY.
I hate speaking with marketting callers. Do you get paid only if you actually speak with someone? I ask because you could get a PAYG sim card, activate it, give i-allow that number then take it out of your phone so that the callers just go to Voicemail. I know that some marketting calls are recorded but I don't know if they are sophisticated enough to establish whether they've reached a VM or not.....
Opinions welcome.

jake72

I signed up to consumer intelligence who offered £5 to use my address. I get confusing junk mail every day now adressed to people I don't know and yet I don't feel comfortable just binning mail that's not adressed to me and I didn't get £5. This sounds similar.

geordie_joe

jake72 wrote: »

I signed up to consumer intelligence who offered £5 to use my address. I get confusing junk mail every day now adressed to people I don't know and yet I don't feel comfortable just binning mail that's not adressed to me and I didn't get £5. This sounds similar.

Don't worry about binning mail that is not addressed to you, the royal mail are only charged with delivering the mail to the address, not the person. Once it comes through your door it's anybody's who picks it up, there are no laws cover what happens to it after that.

Oops, I should mention that if you open it with the intention of gaining a financial advantage it will be an offence under the fraud laws. But if you do open them, and don't take advantage of any information you find, nobody can ever prove you intended to.

You could just write "return to sender" or "Not known at this address" on the envelopes and chuck them in the nearest post box. But if it's just junk mail why bother, the recipient won't want it, the sender won't want it back and the RM won't want to pay to deliver it again.

jake72

geordie_joe wrote: »

You could just write "return to sender" or "Not known at this address" on the envelopes and chuck them in the nearest post box.

I tire of doing that! I did print off some labels to take some efort out of it, but it seems like a waste of labels and ink.

geordie_joe

jake72 wrote: »

I tire of doing that! I did print off some labels to take some efort out of it, but it seems like a waste of labels and ink.

When I worked for the Civil Service we had a stamp that said "Return to sender, not known at this address".

Because so many of the staff subscribed to technical magazines and publications, related to their work, and got them sent to their work address. When they left we continued to get their mail for years after.

vulcan558

So, can anyone tell us how things have gone since the totals posted above in April? Has nyone's continued to increase to a decent amount?

Radshire

geordie_joe wrote: »

Don't worry about binning mail that is not addressed to you, the royal mail are only charged with delivering the mail to the address, not the person. Once it comes through your door it's anybody's who picks it up, there are no laws cover what happens to it after that.

Oops, I should mention that if you open it with the intention of gaining a financial advantage it will be an offence under the fraud laws. But if you do open them, and don't take advantage of any information you find, nobody can ever prove you intended to.

You could just write "return to sender" or "Not known at this address" on the envelopes and chuck them in the nearest post box. But if it's just junk mail why bother, the recipient won't want it, the sender won't want it back and the RM won't want to pay to deliver it again.

Not sure you're right here Joe.
I found this on another chat forum:

from the Post Office Act 1953:

Criminal diversion of letters from addressee
(1)If any person not engaged in the business of the Post Office] wilfully and maliciously, with intent to injure any other person, either opens or causes to be opened any postal packet which ought to have been delivered to that other person, or does any act or thing whereby the due delivery of the packet to that other person is prevented or impeded, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both]

(2)Nothing in this section shall apply to a person who does any act to which this section applies where he is parent, or in the position of parent or guardian, of the person to whom the postal packet is addressed.

I think the first section which states that "or does any act.....whereby the due delievery of the packet to that other person is prevented....shall be liable..." shows that it is illegal to bin someone else's post regardless as to the address to which it is sent. Mail is the sole property of the adressee.

jake72

So what did I do with all the junk mail addressed to someone that doesn't exist? And where's my £5.