Sir Scam a lot

[The Shark]

Yes. But mine has been mostly email and regular mail.

Same with me, the snail mail comes in very official looking envelopes, I know immediately what it is without even opening it.

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[Captain Skippy]

Same with me, the snail mail comes in very official looking envelopes, I know immediately what it is without even opening it.

Exactly. It gently has to do with so-called warranty they are offering.

 

[Whpony96]

I’ve had my 26 bronco sport Badlands for about one month. Since I bought it, I have been inundated with scam, emails scam, phone calls, and scam letters, supposedly from the warranty division. Did my dealership or did Ford sell my information? It is really getting on my nerves.

100% the dealership sold your personal info.

for 8 dollars for 10 years and no more crap mail. This site is recommended by USPS right on their website..
https://www.dmachoice.org/index.php

For email use Gmail they filter that crap out automatically.

 

[NMBroncoSport]

I’ve had my 26 bronco sport Badlands for about one month. Since I bought it, I have been inundated with scam, emails scam, phone calls, and scam letters, supposedly from the warranty division. Did my dealership or did Ford sell my information? It is really getting on my nerves.

I think everybody has seen that. When I looked into, here's what I got:

Here’s what happens.

What gives the warranty marketers the signal

When you buy a new car and title/register it, several pieces of information are generated or updated simultaneously:

1. Your name and address go into the state title/registration record. State requires the owner’s name, residence address and mailing address on the registration application.
2. The MVD record exists in a system that authorized businesses can access for legitimate purposes. States has a subscriber system through which businesses can search vehicle, lien and registration records, but they have to qualify and comply with the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) and state law.
3. The actual owner/address information is legally restricted. States specifically says personal information in motor-vehicle records is confidential, and its MVD says it is prohibited from providing registered owners’ addresses and personal information except under authorized circumstances.
4. The key exception is what makes this confusing: the law permits certain uses of motor-vehicle information, including things such as vehicle safety, recalls, manufacturer/dealer performance monitoring and motor-vehicle market research.

But there’s another very important source

The warranty mailers often aren’t obtaining your name and address directly from MVD at all.

There is a huge data-broker ecosystem that combines information from many sources. A newly registered vehicle is an extremely valuable trigger. Data companies can know things such as:

* You recently acquired make and model
* approximate purchase/registration date
* vehicle year, make and model
* sometimes VIN-related information
* your name
* your mailing address

They then sell or license that information, or a marketing list generated from it, to companies selling vehicle service contracts.

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