Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years

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    4 months ago

    Banks and hospitals sell your information, too.

    When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for “Home care services for new mom and baby”.

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      4 months ago

      …hospitals sell your information, too.

      I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

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      4 months ago

      Oh totally. But they don’t sync that information “immediately”. Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that’s where the information came from.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t think they really care if it’s not actually illegal.

        Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.

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          4 months ago

          I guess it depends on what OP meant by “immediately”. If they meant the same day, maybe. If they meant within seconds or a few minutes, which is what I interpreted it as, then probably not. It takes time to transfer data out of a secure network, unless they gave the company direct access to a feed from the website, which would be really risky for a bank to give any organization a direct, real-time feed of any kind that is on the same network as financial data. I mean unless the bank also owned the spamming company, but that seems risky for reputation.

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      4 months ago

      …hospitals sell your information, too.

      I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.