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] Date Posted: Sat, Aug 06 2005, 23:18:47 In reply to: Glen 's message, "Apricot Consortium in cahoots with timeshare company?" on Sat, Aug 06 2005, 2:28:36 Hi Glen Thanks for sharing and here's my experience with Apricot Consortium: I got a call from Apricot Consortium early this year, claiming I've entered into a lucky draw and won a prize. I asked this girl (sounded young & inexperienced over phone) which lucky draw was that and she said it's with one of the shopping centres during Christmas season and she did not know, all she had was my particulars to contact me. After I realised I was cheated of my money around June last year, I've stopped entering any lucky draws to protect my privacy. Before she rattled on, I asked her for her company name and she said 'Apricot Consortium'. I asked her the location, she said Fable House and I had a sneaky feeling it was another timeshare company and that they are a syndicate sharing our personal particulars because around the same time then, LGM tried getting me down to meet them too. I told her I've never entered lucky draw during last Christmas season, has never consented to anyone or any company releasing my personal particulars to 'Apricot Consortium' and I've never been approached by and personally given Apricot Consortium in the past, hence Apricot Consortium has no right to have my personal particulars. In a firm tone, I told her to tell me the source. She sounded scared and told me to hold on the line. She came back and replied I've checked with my manager and I'm sorry we can't disclose who supplied us your personal particulars. I told her fine then, I shall let the government relevant authorities handle this, this is intrusion of privacy without upfront consent from the owner. She said sorry immediately and hung up the phone. The telephone number she called from was 63392724. Hope my inputs here can save another person from becoming a victim. Up2u [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: George [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: Tue, Aug 09 2005, 11:55:47 Hi, Please be wary. If u look carefully, there is only one timeshare company in Faber House located on the 6th floor. And that is Interval Resorts International or IRN. It is run by a haughty Britisher called Simon Paul Christopher Cook (MD). IRN is marketing Asian Travel Club or ATC of Thailand. I suspect Apricot Consortium is another subsidiary of IRN. This is how these timeshare companies in Singapore operate. They form subsidiaries or sister companies when too much adverse publicity has been attracted by the main company. Many of the timeshare staff of one company migrate to other companies in Singapore after the going gets tough or have misunderstanding with the Managers or get sacked by the management for not getting enough 'deals' or fall into the bad books of some 'Amoh' managers or directors. So armed with the personal particulars of clients whom they have met or spoken to they then forward them to their new bosses to earn favours. If u go to some of the bigger companies in Singapore - LGM, ERI or Oriental Travels u may bumb into some familiar faces. Even the telemarketing staff migrate. So friends beware when u fill up the so-called Survey Sheets during your timeshare presentation. Don't reveal too much about yourself otherwise u will be haunted when u leave the premises by people calling u on the telephone claiming u have won some lucky draws. Most importantly don't show off all your credit cards! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Up2u [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: Mon, May 22 2006, 1:06:49 With regards to my msg above about Apricot Consortium having my personal particulars without my consent early last year & I suspected the source of info. maybe from LGM, here's an article on detering future occurrence.... hope the new data protection law can be enforced soon to prevent more pple from being victimised by timeshare companies. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060521/5/singapore209498.html New data protection law likely to reduce junk mails and marketing ploys SINGAPORE: A committee that is looking at how to protect private information, is expected to submit its report to the government next month. Experts believe one of the key features of the upcoming data protection law is clamping down on private companies that collect and disseminate your personal information freely. Currently, when a person fills out their personal information on forms or lucky draw coupons, the companies will usually store your information in their databases and disseminate it without the person's knowledge or permission. The upcoming law will likely make sure that will not happen again. Experts believe the law may be ready in about 2 years. "Data collectors would have to get your consent if they're going to use it for direct marketing and if you discover that your particulars are being used by direct marketing by a particular company, you'd have a right to go to the company and demand that they stop doing it. It's the sort of thing I could envisage in the legislation coming," said S Suressh, a partner at Harry Elias Partnership. Singaporeans are increasingly using the internet to conduct transactions. So it's timely for the government to study and develop laws to protect personal details. "As we develop, there're more and more demands for rights and one of the rights is of course the right to privacy. So the government's probably decided that we have reached a certain level of development and that businesses can probably cope with the increased burden and cost of this," said Asst Prof Terence Tan from the Law Faculty at NUS. The existing laws cover mainly government agencies such as the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, requiring they protect your personal information. But data collection and protection are unregulated among private companies, which will change with the coming of new laws. - CNA /dt Up2u [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |