It has been brought to our attention that another company is claiming to be selling a Visitors List relating to Merchandise World 2019.

Merchandise World do not, and never will sell any data connected to Merchandise World.

This time the ‘company’ call themselves Re-source Data with the email being sent from a contact called Kim Smith.

The emailers claim to be selling; ‘complete contact information up to date’, which we doubt to be the case. If they do have any data at all, this could not have been obtained legitimately.

There may also be others that have been received by some in the trade. These emails are a clear breach of GDPR, and I am sure once we take legal advice, other laws will have been broken.

 

We have requested immediate written assurance that they will refrain from selling any data relating to Merchandise World, and destroy whatever it is they claim to hold relating to Merchandise World. This must be done today.

We also note that the emails contain no address or telephone contact details with nothing explaining who or what the business is. This is hardly the profile of a legitimate business.

 

Example of email received below:

 

Published on: July 29th, 2019