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2 hours ago, dallen52 said:

Just contact any Indian call centre.

One uk chap purchased the information on 12,000 uk people recently. 

Passport and credit cards, dob, addresses. 

Anything is available for the right price. 

There are a few giant data companies with 90% of everyones internet information from the US, and UK. One of them is called People Data Labs, and they openly sell their giant database which includes a vast amount of information of over 1.2 billion people. Seems like they have 2.4B records now.

This includes where the person was most likely born, what their income is, job, where they live now, even your GPA... If you ever wonder why you are getting random emails its mostly coming from these giant email databases. People repackage smaller databases like this that are much more targeted to someone that wants a lead list. I think it's safe to say that pretty much everyones information is floating around.

https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/stats

You cant opt-out here: https://www.peopledatalabs.com/opt-out-form

Remember that Facebook does allow advertisers to target by age, gender, as well as originating country. Just by clicking or responding to an ad like that you would know which country the person is from, and how old they are, and if they are a male or female. If it's a lead ad and you accidentally click the button your email, would also automatically be sent to the advertiser, the UX changed for this in 2018 due to complaints now its a double opt-in.

I was following the health insurance requirements thread as well. I remember reading a few people posting that they successfully got extensions on their "O-A", when in reality it turned out they really had a Non-O. There are many ways you can end up in a email lead list...

Did you sign up to any reward cards in Thailand? Did you click on any ads? Has any of your friends ever referred you to someone? Did you use any other agents or contact any of them? Did you sign up to a cellphone plan? They also have your phone details, and passport information... Did you register an online bank account? Did you read their term of service?

Lets stop with these conspiracies.