[plug] Microsoft?

[Bill Kenworthy]

Were all on databases these days.  Log into facebook for the first time
and its frightening how much they know about you and your family members
and you personally have a low profile and never given out much ... its
gone way past email headers, they are so last century :)

Its also not just about "your info" but what others say about you (i.e,
use a google mail and whose database do you think your contacts end up
on ... and who sells that data to possibly ... microsoft :)

and it happens regularly - the more active/visble you are the more the
shills are interested in you.

"you are the client when you use google/android/or any other of those
companies, you are their product, even if you dont want to be.  They
dont make money out you, but off of you!

BillK





On 13/06/14 13:36, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I just received two phone calls from 02 8864 9500, claiming to be from
> Microsoft, asking if I was interested in attending a Webinar about their
> cloud offering. I then received an email, inviting me to a Webinar on
> Friday next week.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> I'm not aware of being on any Microsoft Database, they claimed that they
> got my details from my website, but couldn't tell me where they got my
> company name from in the first place. They supplied my domain, email and
> phone number and appeared to know my name.
> 
> The email headers are extensive, but I'm using Google Mail, so I don't
> really know how butchered they are. It's been a while since I dug into
> headers and there seems to be a lot of stuff there that I've never seen
> before.
> 
> Being the paranoid sort, I thought I'd ask for some comment from a group
> whom I trust slightly more than a random phone call and email ;-)
> 
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