The dangers of managing and re-selling contact information….
We saw this post today . Obviously not going to change things but illustrative of what can happen if onmformation isn’t througoughly checked
LEXISNEXIS FRAUDULENTLY SELLS MY PHONE NUMBER AS THAT OF DEBTOR’S
Lexis Nexis Complaint
Lexis Nexis, since November 2011, sells my cell phone number to debt collectors as a possible number for a man I do not know who owes money. They also sell another number, one-digit off, as a possible number. Clearly, somebody could not read the debtor’s writing – was it a 2 or a 3? A debt collector harrassed me to the point that I filed a complaint with Virginia State Bar, so that debt collector furnished these printouts from LexisNexis for both numbers. Since March, I have attempted, with 4 different LexisNexis employees now, to convince them to stop selling my number. I have proven to them that it has been my number for more than 10 years, and that I have never lived at any of the debtor’s addresses. They insist that there is a law requiring them to give out my number (state? federal?) and that they are not allowed to tell me where they got my number. Is it not fraud to take people’s money in exchange for information, and then give them information that you know false information? So the buyer of that information is a victim, and I am a victim of harrassment, and as of July 2012 LexisNexis does not care. They will not put any of this in writing or spell their names or tell me their source of information, much less identify which law requires them to make my life miserable. 1cf07f6