Bombarded by IFAs

[IFABangkok]

Hi there,

 

It had been quiet for a while until recently when a friend has been bombarded with cold emails and calls from the so called IFAs based in Bangkok or generally South East Asia. My friend does not really know what to do, the request to being removed from their database do not seem to be working. Only last week he received 3 cold calls / emails from the likes of PFS (Andrew Wood), Galveston Capital (our of Jakarta) amongst others.

 

Is there any way of reporting to the authorities such abuse?

 

If say my friend has hired an IT analyst who has gained access to the email account of IFA A, IFA B and IFA C, and sent 1000 cold emails from IFA A to IFA B and vice versa, 1000 cold emails from IFA A to IFA C and vice versa, and 1000 cold emails from IFA B to IFA C and viceversa would this not be a taste of their own medicine? Or maybe write a exploit and host it in a server in the Aruba islands to run this script every day for the rest of their days in South East Asia?

 

How do you guys deal with them?

 

 

Edited September 17, 2016 by IFABangkok

[Kwasaki]

Maybe best asked on IT forum but then again l didn't get any response.

[blackcab]

1. Block their number.

2. Change your number.

3. Waste their time.

[mogandave]

Can you hold a minute?.... 

 

Be right with you....,

 

Still there? Hang on a minute..,

 

repeat.. 

[chiang mai]

A newbie, called IFABangkok, asking about IFA cold call problems, in Thailand. Hmm ....!.

 

Spam in an different tin perhaps?

[Thian]

What's an IFA? Thanks for not explaining it.

[brianinbangkok]

Sure beats being bombed by the IRA !
That said waste as much of their time and then say nah not for me and hang up.
Spamming them will not work.

[blackcab]

47 minutes ago, Thian said:

What's an IFA? Thanks for not explaining it.

 

Independent Financial Advisor. A very good thing in a regulated market. A very dangerous thing when unregulated.