Got this in my email this morning,
Literally, u get sold whenever your contact hits here.

Mynd44, lalasticlala do d needful

Yeah I got that email too lol

Candlelight07:
Got this in my email this morning,
Literally, u get sold whenever your contact hits here.

home sure are you that it's not the nairaland owner that is selling it?it's the only plausible reason here.

I got the stupid mail too

Nairaland is a good place to gather emails and phone numbers for whatever you want to do

got the same trash

oh boy.... but it is expected nah. You contact can easily be scraped with automated web scrapers.

http://www.tinyqualityhomes.org/

goldennugget:
oh boy.... but it is expected nah. You contact can easily be scraped with automated web scrapers.

http://www.tinyqualityhomes.org/

how is it possible

Hungry idiots everywhere...

abouzaid:
home sure are you that it's not the nairaland owner that is selling it?it's the only plausible reason here.

Not necessarily

it's very simple to scrap email addresses from a site, all you need is a software to do that.
however, you don't need to worry, will send an email bomb to that address later today.

abouzaid:
home sure are you that it's not the nairaland owner that is selling it?it's the only plausible reason here.

Nah.



It's these guys that ask you to drop your email to receive stuffs from them.

hehehe..So we are not safe sef..i use to wonder how come im getting all this"" You want to travel, go air. go bla bla bla " text messages

Gud one

Not as if they stole it. The owners dropped them willingly.

Remember those threads that state "Five ways to make money online. Drop your contact to get it". That's how they get the numbers and emails

Lite14. com

Desperation and most tines, laziness accounts for this. All one needs to do is to feed them like birds, they'll all flock and drop their emails. Even when a link is dropped, they'll still drop emails. It's a spoonfeeding syndrome but the truth is, only you can help yourself. There's a reason why you have PMs.

Nice comment mustay.

AnyOne who is bold enough to display priv email on public platform is definitely bold enough to swallow it's sweet/sour consequences.

On PM, I once sent PM to someone just to be added to an infamous Ponzi scheme prospect list via mail.. iBecame weak!
To the fellow suggesting the owner of this forum sells user personal profile data, kindly know those words are offensive. If you don't already have your own firm, you some day will and you won't love to be fed such bitter pill.

#MyCandidOpinion

Well, every detail is useful but being a forum with the largest number of Nigerians speaks a lot for whoever wants to use it. From the usernames to the YIMs, to the Twitter handle and even comments, Nairaland is a goldmine of data. (Un)fortunately, some people are ready to give it out easily. Anything free has its own 'openings'.

Even you dont drop it on nairaland, your email can be gotten from another source. All this free app people were downloading upadan where do you think they make money from?
How does trucaller get their contacts database?
What does Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc do with the contact they mine from biilions of Phones other than marketing?
Imagine a Torch Light apps who wants access to my phonebook and SMS
So we have sold our Privacy for free stuffs , and nobody seems to care

Just because you saw someone close to you getting your email you dey raise alarm.

For your info, as long as you are using Android phone, your phone number, emails etc are for sale.

I don't even bother about it anymore, I just created a special spam email to drop on public forum, if you like you sell it, all emails except the one I'm expecting goes straight to spam

nating concern me, i don't even use mine

Idydarling:
nating concern me, i don't even use mine

y u go dey use am when dem nor know u

I received the same email and started receiving spam messages on my gmail after I posted it on a thread last month.

Martin124:
y u go dey use am when dem nor know u

i feel you're stalking me Martin124

Idydarling:
i feel you're stalking me Martin124

stalking u!!!aw common,,,anyway I would ve replied yesterday but ba3 low,,,

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