The daughter of an elderly mail scam victim is complaining to the federal privacy commissioner about Canada Post — after it sold her dad's new address to mail sorting companies — which then provided it to the same marketers who had scammed him. "They are a Crown corporation and they should not under any circumstances be selling personal information," said Lorraine Funk of Swift Current, Sask.
Funk said her 84-year-old father, Peter Wieler, had fallen victim in recent years to mail-in contests and other schemes. She said he was on several customer mailing lists, and would get piles of letters in the mail encouraging him to send money and win a prize.
"He had gotten involved in a lot of the junk mail where you are sending away money and getting back little crappy prizes, and he thought he was going to win a lot of money," said Funk.
She estimates her father — a retired farmer on a fixed income — was taken for about $30,000.
"And at one point, we had the RCMP involved. He's got all kinds of junkie trinkets to show for it but he doesn't have any money to show for it." (read more)
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