Sign up with Googlei always read about suckers who get caught with online banking emails where you "confirm" your data to a fraudulent entity.
thought this would never even come near me.
i mean i got newest nod32 which updates every day, i cant visit dodgy sites even if i wanted to (firewalls, monitoring), i have never installed any activeX requests, i use Spybot, have latest updates for windows.
but then i got an email stating that i am a absa customer, and that i need to confirm my details.
obviously i didnt touch it , but it got me thinking.
how on earth did these bastards find out my email address (this is my private email address and not one i use on forums,i use it solely for important work and banking), and the fact that this is coupled with me being an absa customer? i can understand that e.g. i get an FNB email, i am not a FNB client, so there is no connection; it can just be a random email sent to me.
but this is not random. this is a very private and well hidden email address, not listed on any site whatsoever, ( i googled it and found 0 occurences), and it is probably just know to my employer,closest family, and absa.
years ago, i had a NSFAS loan. NSFAS misspelled my address horribly. e.g. Peter Street became Poeteri street.
After a year, Nedbank sent me mail to Poeteri Street as well. this was very obvious: NSFAS sold my info to Nedbank. I phoned NSFAS and whilst they didnt acknowledge it, they said they'd look into it.
The Nedbank mail stopped.
Im beginning to wonder if absa staff didnt somehow leak out this information ?
Or could it be that Absa sold my information to other companies and now it is coming back to haunt them?
thought this would never even come near me.
i mean i got newest nod32 which updates every day, i cant visit dodgy sites even if i wanted to (firewalls, monitoring), i have never installed any activeX requests, i use Spybot, have latest updates for windows.
but then i got an email stating that i am a absa customer, and that i need to confirm my details.
obviously i didnt touch it , but it got me thinking.
how on earth did these bastards find out my email address (this is my private email address and not one i use on forums,i use it solely for important work and banking), and the fact that this is coupled with me being an absa customer? i can understand that e.g. i get an FNB email, i am not a FNB client, so there is no connection; it can just be a random email sent to me.
but this is not random. this is a very private and well hidden email address, not listed on any site whatsoever, ( i googled it and found 0 occurences), and it is probably just know to my employer,closest family, and absa.
years ago, i had a NSFAS loan. NSFAS misspelled my address horribly. e.g. Peter Street became Poeteri street.
After a year, Nedbank sent me mail to Poeteri Street as well. this was very obvious: NSFAS sold my info to Nedbank. I phoned NSFAS and whilst they didnt acknowledge it, they said they'd look into it.
The Nedbank mail stopped.
Im beginning to wonder if absa staff didnt somehow leak out this information ?
Or could it be that Absa sold my information to other companies and now it is coming back to haunt them?
