I am sure the details go to third parties

There are so many out there. Main thing I do is always check company title in email address and search it on google

Yes.

Really Michael?

Yep...I think so..it was something along the lines of without this I would not be ranked with google....I obviously wasn't thinking because nowhere here did anyone say you had to do this.....Oh well perhaps I've paid for another lesson in life...at least it wasn't very much, which is why I didn't think about it.......

You live and learn.

No worries

What can you say

But this is from a website with privacy set already.

Was there any period of time when domain privacy had not been put into effect for the domain? (It wouldn't have taken scammers very long at all to get the information.)

No. Gone to the source. It has been generated by a website selling cheap traffic

hmm.. I checked.. it is privacy set... godaddy registered and hosted here. I haven't checked the whole site, but so far, I don't see your email displayed.. only your author profile.
Amazing the time spent on sending emails of that type... Guess they must make some money on it.

I doubt that there's really much time involved -- bots scan for the information and send out the scare letters. They're all pretty much the same boilerplate verbiage.

Thanks for the extra mile. Grateful

Not alone then