The "instant Quote" Scam

[Canary42]

It seems you can get instant quotes online for many things these days, from car insurance to funeral plans.

But there's a snag. They all want your e-mail address and telephone number (and we know what they do with those - sell them on) before they respond.

Imagine if all websites worked like that.

You click on Today's Weather on the Met Office site and it asks for your e-mail address and telephone number before it will give you a response.

You click on News on the BBC site and it asks for your e-mail address and telephone number before it will give you a response.

You click on Jokes on the Answerbank website and it asks for your e-mail address and telephone number before it will give you a response.

[Don't you dare, Ed]

[bibblebub]

Most of the websites you visit that have nothing to do with google will pass on information about you visiting their site to google who can readily connect it to your computer, your real name, your email address, your real address, your telephone number and lots of other personal info that google stores about you. It's called tracking and most people make no effort to stop it happening.

[Zacs-Master]

I thought this section was for genuine scams not 'what ifs' which any reasonably intelligent HB can spot a,mile off.

[fiction-factory]

I was following all this until I got to the last bit:

>You click on Jokes on the Answerbank website and it asks for your e-mail address and telephone number before it will give you a response.[Don't you dare, Ed]

Can you clarify please, Canary42, what you mean. Are you referring to the AB Facebook page or some sort of AB Jokes email/site?

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Just use a duff email address. If it detects it as duff then use a [email protected] address

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I did not type virushost in the previous response. The address to use is this (without the underscores)
xxxx@M_A_I_L_I_N_A_T_O_R.com