@mrkrichman This is outstanding advice as many retailers do share your information and sell lists to 3rd party list brokers and other aggregators. To be clear though, I am not one of those retailers and will not ever sell anyones information to a third party. Wise to check a retailers privacy policy though and I applaud you. Thank you for the tip Incogni. Legitimate list brokers will follow the law and will reduce the amount of solicitations, both legit and fraud.
That said, this is not about people actively stealing your info or nefarious actors soliciting from you. This is about bad people setting up fraudulent storefronts to trick people into buying from them. They will take your money and never fulfill. Cause incredible reputational harm to the business that these parasites spoof. By the time you realize you won't get the product you ordered they have extracted the money from the accounts and offshored it.
This is a common practice in countries where the governments aren't particularly concerned with people committing overseas fraud. In fact, some of these governments seem to sponsor this sort of behavior.
