https://www.stopcatalog.com/tags/the-wine-club/Recent content in The Wine Club on Stopcatalog.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopcatalog.comSat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/wine-club-privacy-risk/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/wine-club-privacy-risk/ <h2 id="the-privacy-risk-behind-the-wine-club-catalog">The Privacy Risk Behind The Wine Club Catalog</h2> <p>The <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/CSN-Annual-Data-Book-2023.pdf">Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for 2023</a> recorded more than $10 billion in consumer fraud losses and roughly 2.6 million fraud reports that year, with identity theft consistently among the most-reported categories. Physical mail is part of that threat landscape for a mundane reason that has nothing to do with any single mailer: every catalog order adds a household's name and address to a customer file, and that file is a business asset the direct-marketing industry treats as tradable, not confidential.</p>