ARIZER selling customers contact details?

[WatTyler]

MA week or so ago I got an email to my work address about cannabis and cancer treatments. I thought that this was very odd coming to my work email address. Nothing associated with this side of my life usually goes through my work email system, or so I thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: USAAWebServices@customermail.usaa.com
[mailto:USAAWebServices@customermail.usaa.com]
Sent: 09 February 2012 14:43
To: USAAWebServices@customermail.usaa.com
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Today I received another message from the same address;

From: USAA.Web.Services@customermail.usaa.com
[mailto:USAA.Web.Services@customermail.usaa.com]
Sent: 15 February 2012 18:22
To: USAA.Web.Services@customermail.usaa.com
Subject: Electronic messaging service

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Looking through the history of my work email (which my company preserves on their server) the only communication I have ever had which could in any way possibly relate to the world of cannabis is with Arizer when dealing with my Solo warranty replacement. I wouldn't normally have used my work address but it was the only one I had access to on the particular day I started the discussion, and these were innocent warranty based emails with no MJ related discussion AT ALL. I know that the obvious answer is never to use the work email address for anything like this.... But i did. Just once. With Arizer who I considered reputable.

So what gives? Anybody else get this email from the same address they've dealt with Arizer from? Have Arizer sold my details? Have they been stolen?

If it is the former case, for a company that won't even engage in any online support here at FC, I presume for legal reasons, then I think that it's a bit rich for them to sell our details to third partys for cannabis related spam.

In this industry on the fringes of legality I would be somewhat horrified if my contact details are being traded around on some 'cannabis interested customer' database. Maybe I'm naive in this commercial world, but I would be disgusted with Arizer if they're part of this, as the situation would seem to indicate.

Can anyone offer any insight?

edit: and Canadians- is it the law over there that consent has to be given for your contact details to be traded? Or at least an option to opt out must be offered?

 

[OhTheAgony]

I did a quick google search on that email address and it seems to be a pretty common phishing email you received. To be honest I really doubt Arizer has anything to do with this. I haven't received anything like that myself anyways and I've had 'email relations' with Arizer as well for a while. Perhaps you visited some dubious websites to kill a few boring hours while at work?

 

[WatTyler]

Well if no one else has got it it discounts that possibility then.

hmmm, I tend to try not to look at mj stuff on the work laptop. I've even got my own Internet Provider at home, as well as the one paid for by work because I didn't want work to potentially know everything about my internet browsing.

But I can't say I've never been on vape related websites from the work laptop when I've been away(on the rare occasions it would be with firefox private browsing though, if that makes any difference).

Isn't phishing where they try to get you to enter your bank account details on a phoney site?

Anyway, whatever it is, I'm kind of horrified that it has somehow connected my medicating habits with my work email address- as far as I'm aware Arizer would be the only ones able to do so. This is the trouble with the internet and computers. It seems unless you're a computer genius you just don't know exactly how you're exposed.

Maybe I should start using that onion firefox browser thingy that the internet dealers use, on a separate old laptop.

 

[OhTheAgony]

Yeah, they usually try to get you to go to some website and enter a password or other personal data they can abuse.

I wouldn't worry about it to much, everybody gets those. As long as you never click any links in emails from senders you don't know nothing much can happen.

In this case it is more about spam than phishing anyways, or so it seems. The USAAWebServices address is known to be used for spam and phishing frauds, and the cannabisscience website -even though it seems legit to me- has been reported for spam before.

They could have gotten your work-address from your own contact list from your personal email as well, if you landed on the wrong website or clicked on the wrong link from your home computer (if it's on there of course).

I can imagine your worries about personal habits possible getting out on the workplace, but visiting some websites or receiving some spam mails doesn't actually prove you're doing anything illegal, it just proves you're curious at best I think.

In my experience being safe on the internet is just a matter of common sense mostly. If you don't know what it is or where it is coming from don't click on it, combine that with a good anti-virus and - spyware program just in case and you should be as safe as you can be. How safe that truly is is another matter though. If some smart ass really wants to get in your stuff they probably will find a way how to no matter what.