What are the chances TD Ameritrade sold my e-mail address to marketers?

[fr]

I have my own domain name and years ago when I wasn't so busy as now, I created an e-mail account to receive e-mail from each company I dealt with.

I just closed my TD Ameritrade account about a month ago. Starting this week, I've begun to receive spam at my TD Ameritrade e-mail. It's all been financial advice too. I did not receive a single junk e-mail during the time my account was active. Coincidence?

 

[George P Burdell]

100%

 

[Adul]

So you only used your td email account with ameritrade

 

[vi edit]

I think they have some kind of "leak" with their mailing lists. I have the same exact problem. I have my own domain name that I created an account just for AMTD, I get thousands of spam a week from randomly generated names with whacky titles all having some sort of stock information in the bodies.

I used to work on the Tech Support phones for Ameritrade. They do not sell addresses. I've been told that from the director of Client Services. But there are a handful of people that have this problem. It's not widespread. My personal speculation is that someone internally is harvesting emails some way...kind of like that AOL employee did.

Again, completely personal speculation.

 

[imported_sicko]

I know TD waterhouse does it 100% back then.

 

[Ranger]

I have my own domain name and years ago when I wasn't so busy as now, I created an e-mail account to receive e-mail from each company I dealt with.

I do the same thing, i get more ameritrade than viagra spam.

Andy

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I used to work on the Tech Support phones for Ameritrade. They do not sell addresses. I've been told that from the director of Client Services. But there are a handful of people that have this problem. It's not widespread. My personal speculation is that someone internally is harvesting emails some way...kind of like that AOL employee did.

Again, completely personal speculation.

It is a known fact that at my company people will quit and take a list of employee email addresses to sell to recruiters. I imagine something similar happens more often than it should but dollars speak louder than ethics all too often.

 

[gopunk]

i'm inclined to agree with vi_edit. i have an email address that i only use with them, and started getting nailed with spam through it. i sent them an email letting them know that they had a leak, but their idiotic staff (no offense vi_edit) insisted the spammers had used a brute force method to guess my email address... wasn't worth my time to argue with them.