Why is the Federal Government Feeding My Account Information to Spam Marketers?
If you signed up for Obamacare, and then suddenly had a ton of spam in your email box trying to sell you stuff tailored to your pre-existing health conditions and other private health information, you would be pissed, right?
In the last two months my email box has been overrun with spam from people try to "help" me re-register for the government contractor data base, like this one:
I am registered merely because I have one tiny contract to clean bathrooms in California and I cannot get paid unless I am in the system. I checked my settings in the various government systems to confirm that yes, indeed, I had set it to not display my information publicly. But that does not seem to do a bit of good. Everyone on the planet seems to have my email, my name, and my account expiration dates and CAGE code. Wonderful.
