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This has been going on for a long time. The first spam I received to my Ameritrade address, back when it was Datek, was in November 2005, then another in December 2005, and not again to that address until December 2006. That might have been a different incident than the current one, but still, it was spam to an e-mail address used only from Datek.
In July 2006 I received my first spam to an e-mail address I've only given Ameritrade, which is different from the Datek address I had been using. In August 2006 I reported the problem to Ameritrade and the SEC.
The SEC seemed to take my report seriously, and sent me a letter requesting I e-mail them all of the spam I've received. I sent the information to them, and never heard back, but I didn't expect to.
I was contacted about joining the class action suit, but I'm in a state where part of my agreement with Ameritrade was binding arbitration, so I'm not eligible to join the suit
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Jebus. It is going to be such a pain in the arse for me to move my account to another company.. but I guess that is just what I am going to have to do. Thanks for making my day to day life that little bit more difficult and unpleasant TD Ameritrade!