Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message
Yall, high-school yearbooks are public records.
Is there a place you can access these yearbooks, because I’d really like to see mine.
The school you went to will have them on file. Otherwise, there are websites that you can order or view them.
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What happens is some kid gets a gossip app which takes their contact data and then uses it to send this shit.
I used to get it pretty often too when I was in school.
Don’t keep us in suspense! What did they say? /s
‘Nice glasses you wear’
Please tell us your address so we can bring relevant offers and products straight to your doorstep
2010 Facebook is that you?
Google your name. There are a bunch of websites that will list your known addresses, affiliates(family or people you have lived with), phone numbers, social media, etc.
That data is collected through various means and then are sold to interested parties.
Generally information gathering from public sources like that is called OSINT in case someone wants to look up more details.
Google will monitor your deets in their search results and let you pull them, though I’m not sure how useful that is to most of the peeps in a privacy community.
They might not know know, but there sure can be a lot of meta data one can use to determine that a person goes to school, where it might be, and what school it most likely is.
Or someone else straight up posted the information publicly. That’s always a possibility you have to consider.
Either way, isolating certain websites and services from each other and/or the rest is certainly a good practice to limit what they can gather about you. If you don’t do that already, that is.
This is why it’s good to be middle-aged. If anyone I know was described as my ‘friend in _____ school’ without naming them, I’d just assume it was someone I don’t remember anyway.
Looks like a great way to phising
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I probably should’ve structured my post better but the bigger problem is them having my contact info
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This is most likely something that someone else gave out, not OP. Some old school “friend” signed up for some app and shared their phone contacts, app proceeds to spam those contacts hoping for more sign-ups.
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