Verizon customers: VZ wants to sell your personal information

Spam text messages sent to your cell phone.

Greatly increased chance of identity theft.

Bothers you yet?

 

Honestly, no. Anyone who wants to steal my identity is welcome to it. It's almost certainly worth less than theirs.

They are giving the option of opting out.

 

And if you're still getting paper statements, they even bothered to tell you about it. If you're one of those people who doesn't bother reading the flyers they toss in with your bill, you're screwed and sold.

 

That is pretty weak.

 

Exactly. It is their method that bothers me more than anything.

 

Nope and nope. My credit is shit, all my cards but one are maxed out or over the limit, and I have nothing worth stealing. And I have unlimited texts.

Next?

 

I couldn't care less what Verizon does, they have THE best customer service people I have ever dealt with. They want to sell my info, go ahead. They go above and beyond the call whenever I have a billing issue.

 

I have a Verizon wireless card. I don't get paper from them and haven't seen any notice about this.

I am actually absolutely amazed that there would be people on this board who haven't signed up for the national No Call List. It's free. It works.

 

I'm very, very lonely.

 

I'm on it. Yet some asshole telemarketer still tried my cell phone 10 times one evening.

 

Report them. I've found that the state of Florida actually follows up on complaints (we're also in its list). Of course the company didn't get fined or anything, but they never called again. Sprint.. four straight calls from different people with Indian accents but names like Greg and Mary....