5d ago

Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History

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Sounds like someone purchased, or otherwise gained access to, T-Mobile's targeted customer advertising and marketing profile data.
Or, the kind of information that data harvesting applications gather, and then sell to data brokers.
I wonder if they have a grudge against T-Mobile, this is an early stage of a larger plan, or if it's just for the lulz?
- Honestly, with some tweaks, sounds like not a bad way to start getting your random corporate social media enjoyers to care about privacy.
I wonder if someone is trying to cast shade on TMobile as an ISP who is monitoring content and violating consumer rights? Unless it’s a precursor to a follow-up extortion campaign for these customers, it seems like by itself it does more potential damage to TMobile then to the consumers.
How is it a fake letter? Sounds like a physical tangible thing.
- 🙄it’s not from T-Mobile, it’s a forgery. And, unless the letters are actually cake, we can infer that “fake” in this case means just that.
  Please spare us the reddit pedantry. There are much more intelligent discussions to be had around this topic without avoiding it entirely to inject some grammar nitpicking.
  
  Is there a possibility they're cake? I could go for some cake.
- They hating, but his got a chuickle outta me
- You're confusing "fake" with "imaginary".
And yet, there are no attempts to defraud the customer. No wording that asks for a ransom/payment, not even an email address that could possibly go to the bad actor. In fact, the email address in the letter is a real email address for T-Mobile’s legal department.
Hopefully it's just for good old fashioned shits and giggles.
Its scary some entity got the data. But its also kinda funny.
- If you're curious for the price of data: source
  Basic Consumer Data Lists: £40 to £120 per 1,000 records.
  Verified Consumer Data Lists: £120 to £240 per 1,000 records.
  Highly Targeted Consumer Lists: £240 to £400+ per 1,000 records.
  It's about that order of magnitude.
- What data?
  
  T-mobile customer names and addresses...maybe even more, who knows
About my browsing history: this was for a novel I am writing about terrible terrible people who should never do that
- Ah, you're going for the Pete Townshend defence..

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