Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and dozens of others collect your data and put it up for sale. If it's free, you aren't the customer, you are the product.

Take those quizzes on Facebook or other on-line sites? You know the kind, what kind of dog breed are you, what city should you live in, what's your blues name, and so on. Your answers go into your dossier.

What sites do you click on? The trackers know and that info goes into your file.

Filled in your Facebook or other profile? They know your birth date, where you were born, where you went to school, your likes, your dislikes and so on.

Anybody can buy that information.

I use Etymotic Music Pro active ear filters. They use a hearing aid battery to power them.

I did a google search for hearing aid batteries to find out where I could get them for less money (found cases on Amazon that go for about .22 per battery).

For months I got online ads and SPAM for hearing aids, loud alarm clocks, deaf/hard of hearing charities, flashing lights hooked to the doorbell, TV ears, and other products for hearing impaired people. It was a flood. I don't use google anymore but instead Duck Duck Go, Start Page or IXQuick. I also installed anti-tracking and other privacy add-ons.

So after I got sick of the deaf products, I decided that I must search for other things to dilute the flood. What should I pick? Bikinis? (I like looking at pretty women but wouldn't want my wife getting hunks in her in-box so I nixed that one - do unto others - especially the love of my life). I decided on Guitars, Saxophones, Microphones, music books, and the guitars and recording gear went well, but the saxophones didn't.

Everything you do on-line is for sale. So the Phisher can call you on the phone, he/she knows your name, knows your address, knows your mother's maiden name, knows where you went to high school, knows what kind of computer you are using, and can convince you that you have a virus on your computer that gave him/her that information and if you just give him your credit card number, for a reasonable fee he/she can get that virus off of your computer. Or he/she can say he/she is from the IRS and you need to wire transfer your back taxes or the FBI will be at your door tomorrow.

If it's unsolicited, it's possibly a scam. We live in that kind of age -- sadly.

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Last edited by Notes Norton; 06/12/15 05:03 AM.
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