Just received this text

ThatFragranceGuy said:
Looked up the message, regularly reported for spam it seems. Comment says they've purchased a database of people who have previously searched for insurance products which is how they have your specific name. You've probably done a search at one point on your life and not ticked the "can we sell the **** out of your data?" Box
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I never allow my personal details to be used by a third party.

I recently helped my son re-model his bathroom and gutted it so we could move things about. My son sourced all the materials, bathroom suite, tiles, etc and I was only helping him fit it. I was inundated with adverts on here. I had never searched for anything but had discussed it over the phone with him.

I’m sorry mate, but we aren’t going to agree on this.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I never allow my personal details to be used by a third party.

I recently helped my son re-model his bathroom and gutted it so we could move things about. My son sourced all the materials, bathroom suite, tiles, etc and I was only helping him fit it. I was inundated with adverts on here. I had never searched for anything but had discussed it over the phone with him.

I’m sorry mate, but we aren’t going to agree on this.
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Every time your son visits your home with his phone on him, it reinforces a link between his online profiles and your home WiFi. He doesn't even need to connect to it: the phone reporting it's in range is enough.

He searched for all the equipment, so the ad networks flagged that as an interest for him. Then when you are served ads, the network gives you things they think people close to you would like, in case you're buying stuff for them.

Like I said, they don't listen in because they don't need to listen in.
 
clay said:
Every time your son visits your home with his phone on him, it reinforces a link between his online profiles and your home WiFi. He doesn't even need to connect to it: the phone reporting it's in range is enough.

He searched for all the equipment, so the ad networks flagged that as an interest for him. Then when you are served ads, the network gives you things they think people close to you would like, in case you're buying stuff for them.

Like I said, they don't listen in because they don't need to listen in.
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I wonder if he’s been searching life insurance. Mines been set up since I first got married, well before mobile phones and personal computers.

Edit: Not sure how they got my number from his phone to text me. Maybe I need to look at how their got it, there’s certainly been a data breach.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I never allow my personal details to be used by a third party.

I recently helped my son re-model his bathroom and gutted it so we could move things about. My son sourced all the materials, bathroom suite, tiles, etc and I was only helping him fit it. I was inundated with adverts on here. I had never searched for anything but had discussed it over the phone with him.

I’m sorry mate, but we aren’t going to agree on this.
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You've just pasted a text with your name in it mate. Advertisers aren't listening to conversations and assigning names to people in that conversation and then selling products to you. GCHQ might have that sort of tech but life insurance marketers don't because as said above, they don't need to. They know what you look at online, they know what devices you use and they know who you interact with and therefore may have crossed interest. You've done something at some point, even accidentally. They have your name and phone number. Very easily done when doing insurance quotes or comparisons and could have been an entirely different type of insurance.

As for your son, I presume your son comes to your house or you go to his house? Therefore you will have been proximity linked. Your phone isn't listening to your calls and then selling that info.

Wipe a phone and play YouTube ads at it for one product all day in a room then come on here - you'll get nothing.

You mentioned ads on here - this uses a google operated ad platform, it will know you're a bloke, living in a specific region and your visiting a website which is mainloe blokes probably of a similar age and demographic and you've been in contact with another bloke who has been extensively purchasing and looking at items for a bathroom remodel and other blokes on here have probably done the same so will link the two.if you don't interact then it will move onto the next link.
 
As an example when I go to this site with ad personalisation on I get Temu links for cabin bags.

I've been talking to my dad and brothers about them, and also my girlfriend but not searched for one. So it could look like they've picked that out of the conversations

However thinking back I commented on a TikTok about it last week so it's made a link to that.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I wonder if he’s been searching life insurance. Mines been set up since I first got married, well before mobile phones and personal computers.

Edit: Not sure how they got my number from his phone to text me. Maybe I need to look at how their got it, there’s certainly been a data breach.
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It doesn't have to be life insurance, you might have searched for car insurance or travel insurance or home insurance or pet insurance. Could be anything, all you had to do was not tick a box once. I religiously opt out but every now and then something slips through.
 
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