topic Re: SafeOpt in Community Chat

SafeOpt

NYCLatinaMe — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:45:15 GMT

I went to a website and looked at an expensive beauty tool (Lyma), and received an email from Lyma @ SafeOpt dot com. It went straight to my junk folder, but I look there before deleting. Not sure how they got my email address since I don't remember giving it to them, but I can't read the email itself unless I click on something, which I am not inclined to do without some information.

If anyone has any experience with SafeOpt or know what it is, I would love to hear about your experience.

I have been browsing with chrome because I am having problems with safari. Chrome does not appear to be as protective as safari. The email did not go to my gmail account, which I never use. The whole thing is a mystery to me.

I would love if anyone can shed light on this. Thanks!

Re: SafeOpt

chrystaltree — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:09:45 GMT

If you ever shopped with any of the thousands of companies that belong to Safeopt, they have your email address. I believe Safeopt also collects email addresses from public social media sites. You didn't give it to them. I think you can opt out of emails from them but I'm pretty sure you have click on the link to see how you do that.

Re: SafeOpt

NYCLatinaMe — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:24:42 GMT

Thanks @chrystaltree. Never heard of SafeOpt. So it was probably a cookie that gave me up.

What companies belong to Safeopt?

Re: SafeOpt

mspatmac — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:10:27 GMT

@NYCLatinaMe Google and it's all explained

Re: SafeOpt

chrystaltree — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:11:45 GMT

@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

Thanks @chrystaltree. Never heard of SafeOpt. So it was probably a cookie that gave me up.

What companies belong to Safeopt?

I only found out about it a month or two ago. Was out with friends and the subject came up. I'd never heard of it. I don't know but my guess is if you click on the link, there will details including their website.

Re: SafeOpt

NYCLatinaMe — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:14:39 GMT

@mspatmac wrote:
@NYCLatinaMe Google and it's all explained

@mspatmac; @chrystaltree

Thanks for your advice. I don't feel comfortable googling something that was stalking me, let alone clicking on a related link that could download more tracking tools and viruses to my computer. So I thought I would ask forum posters if anyone had any experience with SafeOpt.

Please don't take offense that I ask about other people's experiences. I think that is one of the things we can use the forum for. I do that all the time, as do others. When I have an experience or information I can share, I do.

If you have any relevant information, it would be nice if you could share.

Thanks!