the truth is out there…

Biker and I have a landline telephone which we use very rarely. The only people that call on our landline are family and overseas family and occasionally a friend who is chancing that we might be in (ie. too cheap to call our mobiles!). Lately however it feels like our landline has been inundated with calls – calls from call centres, from people trying to sell us something or obtain our details or update their records or people wishing to speak to the ‘owner of the house’. Anyway, we find them annoying!

Now, one caller knew my name and when challenged where they might have obtained my details she said it would have been something that I might have applied for online. Now, I do apply for a lot of online things, things like competitions or such like as I am a big believer of ‘being in it to win it’, the only other things that I apply for online are things like bank accounts, etc. So, in conclusion I think that my bank / credit card company is indeed selling my personal details to these companies and it is completely annoying to be disturbed in my own private time. The other evidence I have to suspect my multi-national bank has been selling my details is that I don’t even know my landline number. I have to look it up each time, so when I frivolously enter competitions, etc it’s always with my mobile number as a contact.

Now, surely there must be some law governing this blatent exploitation and selling of my personal information? I never tick the box for my details to be shared! I don’t want a load of unsolicited companies contacting me by mail, email or phone!!! I did not invite them to contact me and I do not want to waste my personal time talking or reading their messages. Call me a bit selfish as it’s a job and someone has to do it, hell in fact I have doen something similar but business to business and never really appreciated how nnoying it really is!