Recent comments in /f/philadelphia

ronreadingpa t1_jcpxu2p wrote

Deeds and liens (ie. mortgage, home equity loan, etc) is public information. There are many companies that monitor public records and pounce soon as they detect a change.

While still very uncommon, there's a slight uptick in people buying property under the name of a corporation, trust, etc. Challenge there is keeping the officers / owners secret. Some states make it easy while others, likely including PA, don't. Regardless, it's a barrier.

Also, the government sells data too, such as the DMV (PennDOT). Doubt the spam calls are due to that. However, ads for insurance, etc could be. It's very difficult to hide one's personal information when so many are seeking to enrich themselves with it. Credit bureaus are another. It's endless.

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tempmike t1_jcpvxng wrote

When we first moved here we were renting but had to title our car and get a state driver's license and definitely got a lot through one or both of those (I suspect its from titling the car because I seem to get the majority of the spam calls as opposed to my wife). Recently we purchased our house and I can't say I really noticed any change in the number of calls except what you'd expect with the election cycles.

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