Recently purchased a new car and, against my better judgement, provided my details to both iSelect and Compare The Market to obtain quotes. I ensured that there were no extra boxes ticked such as permission to share data with other companies.
Everything was fine - received a few phone calls from similar but slightly different numbers. I’d block them each time as it was just automated messages or someone hassling me to sign up (my insurance was since sorted, by that point).
After ignoring these calls for the better part of a fortnight, they stopped. It was around this time that I started receiving a whole raft of spam emails which my inbox was having trouble filtering. All emails are for completely different topics (standard spam stuff; crypto, weight loss, supplements etc) but they all share the same layout, and their “unsubscribe” links send me to pages with different layouts but the same / very similar series of redirects after clicking the link.
Correlation =/= causation, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced similar? The tinfoil-hat-wearing interpretation may be to conclude that either/both companies decided to flog/leak my information, out of spite, after ignoring them.
yep I've been getting these the past 2 days from spam registered mobile numbers. I did use iselect to get a compaired quote