Chronopay sell your details to spammers
Posted on Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 9:05pm. #
On June 4th, 2006, I bought something using Chronopay, a payment company based in the Netherlands. I used a unique email address to sign up. Above is a list of all emails sent to the unique email address that only Chronopay has for me.
This is concerning for a number of reasons:
1. It’s against EU law.
2. Has my email address been sold? Or stolen?
3. Have the details of my credit card been sold? Or stolen?
Given the evidence, I would strongly advise never to deal with any company that uses Chronopay. They’re clearly either scumbags of the highest order, or (in spite of what it says on their website), they’re not hacker-proof. Either way, I’m glad that I change credit cards every two years.
(In case you’re wondering how I signed up: Gmail gives you unlimited unique email addresses. If you’re johndoe@gmail.com, then johndoe+spammers@gmail.com also gets to you. The same’s true for Google Apps accounts. Because of some incompatibilities with badly-written code, I actually rewrite a similar-looking email address on my mailserver.)
matt said at February 24th, 2008 at 3:52pm 
