Neodog with Glasses Plushie on Akkoma: "New way to get customer support just dropped", with a screenshot of Hackers News by qingcharles: "One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do.  As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd.  And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone. (this is usually successful, but can backfire badly -- CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans)".
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago

I did something like this once.

Predatory marketing company in the early 00's sent my company a pretty wide spam.

Hit about 2/3 of my staff, looked kind of official, like they we were asking them to buy their product.

I said fuck that, I looked up their admin contact (back before domains by proxy) and demanded they remove us from the list.

The admin reached back out and told me it was impossible.

I poked around on their internet facing smtp server to figure out their naming convention, (those were the wild west days) sent a direct message to each of their c-staff, their HR department, and tossed in everyone@ (I hope that would have been blocked) and threatened to sign them up for every list I could get my hands on if I ever got a single report that they sent us another spam.

The admin mailed me back 1 hour later asking me to please never send them mails again and that our domain was being removed from their list.

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