Nov
15
EUWIFO, European Economic Research Institute, Zurich: Spamming Finnish businesses with survey invitations
This has been going on for a long time. I think I started receiving it in April 2012. I opted my own biz address out of it during the summer, but I continue to see the same spam in spamtraps. It was also discussed on a Finnish LinkedIn group. Some of the spamtraps constitute outdated and erroneous personal information, the processing of which is completely illegal under Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act. There is no indication of the address source, but certain key facts suggest it might be Bisnode or one of the other more international players who deal in Finnish leads.
Read more…