I just got a call from a company selling "security systems and cameras", they're a local company and called me by name. I'm almost certain they must of got my information from a police report I filed 2 months ago when my laptop was stolen from work. Isn't something like using a police report for marketing rather illegal? If so is there anyway to report such practices?
Public information. The ambulance chasers are real good at that one. They are actually better at it than the state. Many people find out they are being sued or arrested because the Esquires are sending them letters wanting to represent them. Most states have laws against physicians or chiropractors doing that. Sometimes the laws get fudged a little in the fine print, like "If you phone yourself, it's OK. If you hire someone that reads a script, it's OK," etc. It is unethical, in my opinion. Others don't have laws against them that I know of, so you're stuck there. Security companies are pretty much unregulated, so you are stuck there. If security companies are regulated in your state, you can complain to them.
Have them quote you a horrifically complicated custom security system. Haggle over the price for months. I mean really make them work for it. After a few months of talking to a salesman for an hour every day, tell them you aren't buying anything.
Best revenge ever.
i got busted for getting a ticket when i was away at school because a lawyer sent me junk mail back home offering to represent me
Strizzo wrote: i got busted for getting a ticket when i was away at school because a lawyer sent me junk mail back home offering to represent me
That's funny, I busted my wife on a speeding ticket she "neglected" to tell me she got when a receipt came in the mail 
It might be irritating, but it's better to have dealings with the state (your report) a matter of public record than the opposite.
People scouring through public records is big business and works for a lot of people.
I buy mailing lists for local businesses compiled, I'm sure, from business/corporation papers filed with the government. I can narrow the list to very tight criteria...
Ha! now I think the security company did the same thing:
Bought a list of individuals in a certain geographical area who have filed police reports for theft in the last 90 days.
-James
skruffy wrote: Have them quote you a horrifically complicated custom security system. Haggle over the price for months. I mean really make them work for it. After a few months of talking to a salesman for an hour every day, tell them you aren't buying anything. Best revenge ever.
do it, do it, do it
Well then can you honestly think of a better way for the police department to recoup the money it had to spend filing that report for you besides selling your information?
yea.. my mom got busted for not having up to date registration on her car (honest mistake) and a couple of weeks later, lawyers were sending her offers to represent her in court if she wanted to contest it
We just heard about a guy who bought a property in Eastern PA (Bucks County: aptly named) after researching taxes, etc., bought the property. a couple months later his taxes went up because the taxing entity saw the purchase price which is, of course, public record...
mel_horn wrote: We just heard about a guy who bought a property in Eastern PA (Bucks County: aptly named) after researching taxes, etc., bought the property. a couple months later his taxes went up because the taxing entity saw the purchase price which is, of course, public record...
well duh, you don't buy a property because the last purchase price 25 years ago is low and therefore the taxes are low. you're supposed to calculate the taxes based on the amount you pay for the property if you don't want to get burned like that
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