CO DMV selling personal information?

[Sharpienads]

Begin rant.

My wife renewed her Colorado DL online a few days ago (who wants to go stand in line at the physical DMV anyway). In the renewal application questions were asked regarding current insurance (to be expected, I guess) and also current vehicles she owns. I thought it was BS for them to ask the question about cars (this was for a DL not registration) but it was required so she filled it out. The renewal application also asked for credit rating which is MAJOR BS. That is no business of the DMV!

Anyway, fast forward to today and she has been getting spammed via cell, email AND text from multiple insurance agents trying to get her to change insurance. They all have said she requested they call her. She did no such thing. The only explanation is the DMV either sold or outright gave her personal information to these agents which is complete and total BS and a major abuse of authority by the DMV. We are both pissed. F'n crooks.

That sucks and it is total BS.

[mahabali]

I did mine in april and didn't have any of those. Sounds like a fake website she got on

I had the exact same thing and I know it wasn't a fake website because I got my DL in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I asked one of the insurance companies where they got my info and they said "did you renew your DL recently?"

[Zundfolge]

The wife and I renewed our licenses in person recently and didn't have these problems.

But then again we are registered here http://www.coloradonocall.com/

[hollohas]

OK, something fishy is going on. I just renewed mine too to see what the questions were. I didn't get one question about credit, insurance or cars. Although we both got identical receipts in our email...

She walked me through what website she used (confirmed by her history) and it is all legit. Although she couldn't walk me through the actual renewal process so is there a chance she was on the real DMV website and then somehow a link from that site sent her to a fake one? And then the fake website still submitted a renewal application and paid the DMV after they stole her info?

[hollohas]

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But then again we are registered here http://www.coloradonocall.com/

Yup, we're registered there and the national.

[theGinsue]

Just renewed my DL at a County DMV office last week. The whole experience only lasted about 20 minutes, counting the wait, paperwork, eye test & photo.

The guy didn't ask me any questions, but I know El Paso County does sell personal information. We'll see if I start getting junk mail. (no more phone calls than normal right now)

[mahabali]

OK, something fishy is going on. I just renewed mine too to see what the questions were. I didn't get one question about credit, insurance or cars. Although we both got identical receipts in our email...

She walked me through what website she used (confirmed by her history) and it is all legit. Although she couldn't walk me through the actual renewal process so is there a chance she was on the real DMV website and then somehow a link from that site sent her to a fake one? And then the fake website still submitted a renewal application and paid the DMV after they stole her info?

I did have all those questions... And thought it was weird at the time too.

[hollohas]

We did a little more digging. We think she may have gotten to a fake website.

This one

http://coloradodriverslicenses.org/renew.html

This tells you all the rules and at the very top gives you the option to renew "online". The link brings you to a official looking form with an option to "renew". That opens an application that asks for all the information in question.

At the bottom in the small print is says this application is a request for insurance quote...

Looks like she got duped. Fire drill over.

PS - she did make it to the real website at some point to actually renew which explains how we got a receipt.

[kanekutter05]

Bummer...well that just gives you a bunch of opportunities to completely mess with telemarketers...like this guy did:

[RCCrawler]

The calls or the questions about credit, etc?

Neither for me