Where does SANRAL get users e-mail addresses?

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We did not buy e-tags, so where would SANRAL have obtained our e-mail address from to send us a message called "handover"?
 
They seem to have been doing some irregular digging in order to get details.

I have also seen some creative stuff !
 
blunomore said:
We did not buy e-tags, so where would SANRAL have obtained our e-mail address from to send us a message called "handover"?
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Government! After all they have your car number plate and in South Africa that's like your ID or social security number.
 
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Government! After all they have your car number plate and in South Africa that's like your ID or social security number.
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How would someone obtain my e-mail address just from knowing what my car's reg. no. is???

Makes no sense.
 
blunomore said:
How would someone obtain my e-mail address just from knowing what my car's reg. no. is???

Makes no sense.
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They have access to eNatis data.

Almost all vehicle reg and renewal forms have for years asked for email address. Also, fine payments done through payment providers like paycity, paymyfines, etc - these are all captured in eNatis.
 
Arthur said:
They have access to eNatis data.

Almost all vehicle reg and renewal forms have for years asked for email address. Also, fine payments done through payment providers like paycity, paymyfines, etc - these are all captured in eNatis.
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THAT explains it - the e-mail from SANRAL was for my husband's car and I usually pay his traffic fines via pay city.

Thanks
 
blunomore said:
THAT explains it - the e-mail from SANRAL was for my husband's car and I usually pay his traffic fines via pay city.

Thanks
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Do you use his e-mails address or your e-mail address for the paycity? Did your e-mail address received the e-toll mail?

paymyfines.co.za is run but a e-toll associated company, paycity.co.za is separate company and says they don't share info. So if you paid any fines via paymyfines.co.za that's where they got it.
 
supersunbird said:
Do you use his e-mails address or your e-mail address for the paycity? Did your e-mail address received the e-toll mail?

paymyfines.co.za is run but a e-toll associated company, paycity.co.za is separate company and says they don't share info. So if you paid any fines via paymyfines.co.za that's where they got it.
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I use his email address .. and it is done via pay city.

So either they lied when they said they don't share info, or SANRAL got his email address from somewhere else.
 
blunomore said:
I use his email address .. and it is done via pay city.

So either they lied when they said they don't share info, or SANRAL got his email address from somewhere else.
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The might have got it when car was first registered, who know what details the dealerships put over from the applications forms. There are also other forms which ask it these days, drivers license renewal. But yes, they could be lying.
 
I received an email handover notice yesterday - but get this. Not sent to my personal email address, but to the main email address of the company I work for, where I am only listed as a contact person on that ISP's database, not as the actual 'owner' of the address.

How they got access to that info, I'd love to know..
 
blunomore said:
I use his email address .. and it is done via pay city.

So either they lied when they said they don't share info, or SANRAL got his email address from somewhere else.
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They have not contacted me, I am registered on paycity.

I do not fill my email address or cell number in on the car registration forms.
 
Our company is signed up with two credit bureaus. Over and above credit checks, we also have access to a tracing system of both bureaus where we can conduct searches (which is not indicated on a credit profile). On the tracing system we can obtain e-mail addresses of people who applied for credit at banks, insurance companies or retail companies, if they gave the e-mail address on the application form.

I am almost sure that these people must have signed up at credit bureaus as well?
 
Arthur said:
They have access to eNatis data.

Almost all vehicle reg and renewal forms have for years asked for email address.
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This... I think I have stupidly been filling in my e-mail address and cellphone number on those licence forms for years now. :(
 
Garyvdh said:
This... I think I have stupidly been filling in my e-mail address and cellphone number on those licence forms for years now. :(
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I have never updated any information in that E-mail Address field on renewal forms. In fact, I do not give my e-mail address on any credit application form. Banks and retail companies sell customer information between one another for marketing purposes and for this reason I just always say I do not have an e-mail address.
 
Just got another sms saying I've been handed over. This time, I owe R2141 instead of the R485 I've been invoiced for.
 
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