Frater
Clarksville,#2UPDATE Employee
Thu, May 20, 2004
Diana- To my knowledge, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Does not sell information about transactions that take place in thier stores. In fact, every e-mail that I recieve in my buisness e-mail comes up as "Wal-Mart Confidential". This could be anything to changes in the company, sales, I tend to believe even the e-mail that I recieved from the company CEO, was listed as such. So to think that they would release customer information out there to an outside company is at best very difficult to believe. I tend more to suspect that your phone call was a con artist, since I suspect that if I where to call any given phone number in a metropolitan area and stated "From your recent purchases at Wal-Mart" that I would get someone whom had shopped at Wal-Mart recently about 93% of the time. Sure you have that margin of error of 7%, but that is not a bad margin of error. Especially for a con artist whom lives his life to play numbers like that in order to take someone elses money. If you don't believe it get to know someone from Vegas whom works in a casino. I noticed that you stated that you never give your credit card number out over the phone, but I must ask if you give out your number over the internet? Not uttilizing sucure connections while making purchases over the internet can certainly make you a possibility for identity theft. Not to mention even with secure connections, there are hacks out there to get through the incription codes that they use. Just a few thoughts on the matter.
Frater
Clarksville,#3UPDATE Employee
Thu, May 20, 2004
Diana- To my knowledge, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Does not sell information about transactions that take place in thier stores. In fact, every e-mail that I recieve in my buisness e-mail comes up as "Wal-Mart Confidential". This could be anything to changes in the company, sales, I tend to believe even the e-mail that I recieved from the company CEO, was listed as such. So to think that they would release customer information out there to an outside company is at best very difficult to believe. I tend more to suspect that your phone call was a con artist, since I suspect that if I where to call any given phone number in a metropolitan area and stated "From your recent purchases at Wal-Mart" that I would get someone whom had shopped at Wal-Mart recently about 93% of the time. Sure you have that margin of error of 7%, but that is not a bad margin of error. Especially for a con artist whom lives his life to play numbers like that in order to take someone elses money. If you don't believe it get to know someone from Vegas whom works in a casino. I noticed that you stated that you never give your credit card number out over the phone, but I must ask if you give out your number over the internet? Not uttilizing sucure connections while making purchases over the internet can certainly make you a possibility for identity theft. Not to mention even with secure connections, there are hacks out there to get through the incription codes that they use. Just a few thoughts on the matter.
Frater
Clarksville,#4UPDATE Employee
Thu, May 20, 2004
Diana- To my knowledge, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Does not sell information about transactions that take place in thier stores. In fact, every e-mail that I recieve in my buisness e-mail comes up as "Wal-Mart Confidential". This could be anything to changes in the company, sales, I tend to believe even the e-mail that I recieved from the company CEO, was listed as such. So to think that they would release customer information out there to an outside company is at best very difficult to believe. I tend more to suspect that your phone call was a con artist, since I suspect that if I where to call any given phone number in a metropolitan area and stated "From your recent purchases at Wal-Mart" that I would get someone whom had shopped at Wal-Mart recently about 93% of the time. Sure you have that margin of error of 7%, but that is not a bad margin of error. Especially for a con artist whom lives his life to play numbers like that in order to take someone elses money. If you don't believe it get to know someone from Vegas whom works in a casino. I noticed that you stated that you never give your credit card number out over the phone, but I must ask if you give out your number over the internet? Not uttilizing sucure connections while making purchases over the internet can certainly make you a possibility for identity theft. Not to mention even with secure connections, there are hacks out there to get through the incription codes that they use. Just a few thoughts on the matter.
Frater
Clarksville,#5UPDATE Employee
Thu, May 20, 2004
Diana- To my knowledge, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Does not sell information about transactions that take place in thier stores. In fact, every e-mail that I recieve in my buisness e-mail comes up as "Wal-Mart Confidential". This could be anything to changes in the company, sales, I tend to believe even the e-mail that I recieved from the company CEO, was listed as such. So to think that they would release customer information out there to an outside company is at best very difficult to believe. I tend more to suspect that your phone call was a con artist, since I suspect that if I where to call any given phone number in a metropolitan area and stated "From your recent purchases at Wal-Mart" that I would get someone whom had shopped at Wal-Mart recently about 93% of the time. Sure you have that margin of error of 7%, but that is not a bad margin of error. Especially for a con artist whom lives his life to play numbers like that in order to take someone elses money. If you don't believe it get to know someone from Vegas whom works in a casino. I noticed that you stated that you never give your credit card number out over the phone, but I must ask if you give out your number over the internet? Not uttilizing sucure connections while making purchases over the internet can certainly make you a possibility for identity theft. Not to mention even with secure connections, there are hacks out there to get through the incription codes that they use. Just a few thoughts on the matter.