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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
February 2003
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Re: Privacy Act?
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Thu, 01 April 2004 09:01
 
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banks to like to bend the rules to suit themselves...
-i have an old account with a qld-based bank
-during the rugby world cup, one the bank's PR outfits doing promotions for the bank (which was a major sponsor) started sending me spam
-i complained to the bank thinking that the terms & conditions of my account prevented them from passing details to any third party (particularly my email, home address and name)
- they respond back saying, sorry, (in more words than this but...) as the third party was engaged by the bank to undertake promotional activities, they were agents of the bank, not a third party (stinko bullshit i thought , but...)
- i wanted to disagree, but it was only overspam and junkmail so i gave up... needless to say when i refinance for my house renovations (>$100k), this bank will not be getting my business.
and...the URL spamming me was <bankname.spammername.com.au>
and unless you looked inside the email header it looked like a bank email - no words about it being sent by an agent of the bank... at first i thought i was being sent phishmail in an attempt to get banking details from me... i was not impressed by the whole episode... and the bank thought seriously enuf about my initial privacy-breach allegation to phone me... but the apology came by email - from the agent spamming me! ;(
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