Chrysler Sells your Email address to spammers -- beware!!

[HoundDude]

I haven't received any Jeep related spam email either since purchasing my JL 5 months ago

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[ads75]

I bought the FCA Lifetime warranty in November. I haven't gotten warranty spam yet. May be the dealer that sold the email address. Or they could have gotten from somewhere else. I got a call about extending the warranty on my Audi last year...which I got rid of 3 years earlier.

 

[DanW]

By giving a different email address to every company. Easy. If my Gmail address is [email protected] and I want to allow, say, Costco to send me email I give them the email address of [email protected]. Going forward if I start getting spam from some other source I'll know it was Costco. At that point I can *try* to opt out to see if it works or just designate that address in Gmail to go directly to the bit bucket. There's literally a handful of people to whom I've given my raw email address. Can someone easily decipher this if they want to spend a few minutes on it? You bet, but that's not how spam operations work - it's high volume + low effort and any effort spent trying to do work like that is wasted from a business perspective.

(edited to add): BTW I'm not accusing Costco of anything, I've had no issues with them, was just using them as an example.

That's a neat feature! So, I don't have to set anything up, right? Just add the "+whatever" and it still comes to my gmail box?

I will say, I still see no evidence of Spam related to Chrysler. I haven't seen any warranty spam or anything else that leads me to believe it came through them. Honestly, I don't get a lot of spam except for what I get directly from retailers after making purchases from them. If I unsubscribe, it usually stops. If not, the spam button on gmail seems to work well.

 

[cbrenthus]

I have an e-mail set up just for commercial use - I get tons of spam there and currently have over 100K unread messages LOL!. Plus, I've also received letters about extended warranty as well.

 

[californiajeeping]

There are usually multiple waves of email spam. Once you give it to FCA or any other car mfg, they sell it to the warranty companies, etc. Then after about 6 months, those companies sell their lists to the next category of spammers. Then it continues from there. Welcome to the internet.

 

[JP18]

FCA has had my address since day one. All the warranty offers were from FCA and they supported when I opted out.

I'm getting extended warranty PHONE CALLS for a 2012 VW Passat TDI that I haven't owned for 4 years!

JP18

 

[UKCATS]

Just give them a fake email. Like, [email protected].

 

[Kahdir]

Just give them a fake email. Like, [email protected].

There is a Mr. Butz (or a college student from the early days of gmail) hating you right now

 

[Karl_in_Chicago]

That's a neat feature! So, I don't have to set anything up, right? Just add the "+whatever" and it still comes to my gmail box?

Yup, you got it. The base <johnsmith>@gmail.com address can be modified either by adding to it with the plus sign (+) or by using periods within the address - [email protected] is the same thing as [email protected] as is [email protected]. I find the Plus sign to be the easiest/quickest for my needs.

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