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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2173110, member: 73555&quot;]There&#039;s a way to <i>help</i> solve this problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>For many of you, it&#039;s too late, but over time, try this.&nbsp; Use different middle initials each time you deal with a numismatic entity.&nbsp; For Coin World, maybe Jack H. Smith; for ANA, Jack R. Smith; for PCGS, maybe Jack T. Smith, etc.&nbsp; Eventually you find out who&#039;s selling your name to whom.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll take it a step further.&nbsp; I support a disabled veterans&#039; group.&nbsp; One day I got a letter from another veterans&#039; group.&nbsp; Under circumstances I won&#039;t go into here, that seemed strange.&nbsp; So I replied <u>to them</u> with a different middle initial.&nbsp; Three months later, I started getting a FLOOD of mail from do-gooders, including one from the Philippines, using the bogus middle initial.</p><p><br /></p><p>No doubt at all they had sold my name.&nbsp; Won&#039;t say what I did, but they CERTAINLY didn&#039;t like it, and it probably cost them a good deal of money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can work out your own version of this strategy, it feels GOOOOOOOOD to vent your spleen every now and then. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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