ActivePDF sold my e-mail address to spammers
Like everyone else I hate spam with a passion. I manage to keep the spam level reasonably low as I use a different email alias for each subscription, forum, etc. When a company sells my address to a spammer I know who the bastards were and I just delete all mails to the spammed alias.
In this case the bastards are ActivePDF as they sold my e-mail address:
Hi.
Your privacy policy (http://www.activepdf.com/privacy/) clearly states:
Once you register, or otherwise provide activePDF with your personal information, activePDF.com will not share that information with third parties without your permission.How do you explain that I receive SPAM mail to the e-mail address I registered at your site (activepdf@...com)? As you can tell from the e-mail address, I use a unique address for each company I deal with so I can recognize who sells it to spammers for profit.
The latest spam mail was sent from "cross@registerzdi-zannounce.com" with the title "Complimentary Subscription to eWEEK".
Please make sure that my address is removed from the list of the spammers you sold it to.
Thank you,
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ReplyDeleteI personally will investigate why your email has been used in such a manner. activePDF does not, nor has it ever, "sold" email addresses to 3rd parties.
Tim Sullivan
CEO
activePDF, Inc.
Glad to hear that.
ReplyDeleteI will hide this post for 1 week while you look into the issue.