[Resolved]  Iffco-Tokio General Insurance — ITGI Leaking Customer Name, Vehicle details, Policy no. etc via SMS

My Mobile no. 98xxxxxxxx1 has been receiveing unsolicited text messages from TD-IFFCO-TO.
I have reasonable cause to believe that these messages are orginated by the IFFCO-TOKIO GENERAL INSURANCE (ITGI) company.

Each message contains the following confidential information:

Customer name
Vehicle owned by customer
Policy number of the customer

My attempt to reach S NARAYANAN - MD and CEO - failed, as the call centre no. [protected] does not allow one to do so: agent "GAURAV" and team manager "MOHAN" are well trained not to provide customer service when one complains. Instead they share further confidential information such as the make/year of manufactur of each vehicle insured!

A Sampling of the messages received is shared below, for your reference & necessary action:

Date Time Sender Content
12/17/10 4:31 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear JAMNALAL CHOURASIYA, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HERO HONDA CD DELUX DRUM CAST with ITGI. Your Policy # is 1-FTZQZV. For any information please contact[protected].

12/20/10 5:09 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear ASHOK GUPTA, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HERO HONDA CD DAWN STD with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FVYP79. For any information please contact[protected].

12/20/10 5:19 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear ANIL LASHKARI, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HONDA eterno with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FVYTTB. For any information please contact[protected].

12/20/10 5:39 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear ASHWIN GARG, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HERO HONDA CD DELUX DRUM SPOKE with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FVZPAP. For any information please contact[protected].

12/20/10 6:05 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear RAKESH JOSHI, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HERO HONDA PASSION PLUS with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FW0B23. For any information please contact[protected].

12/23/10 7:03 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear JAVED SHAIKH, Thanks for insuring your vehicle TVS APACHE RTR with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FZ51K5. For any information please contact[protected].

12/23/10 7:09 PM TD-IFFCO-TO Dear ABDUL MAJID, Thanks for insuring your vehicle HERO HONDA PASSION PRO CAST with ITGI. Your policy # is 1-FZ515H. For any information please contact[protected].

I would strongly request you to take up the matter of leaking customer information to 3rd parties which is happening from IFFCO TOKIO via SMS.