[dudul]

> What it looks like is that a recruiter has paid a third party service to retrieve my CV it scraped from Monster in 2014 and get my contact details. Contact details that shouldn't exist in the open.

In 2014 your profile was public, so your contact information did exist in the open. May not be legal for a company to crawl Monster to store information though, you would have to look at Monster's terms of service (for example LinkedIn doesn't allow apps to store LinkedIn data, only to retrieve them via the API).

>I understand that placing my personal details on a job board would have resulted in everyone and their mother being able to read and save it, but I didn't really think that my CV and personal contact details would have been archived and continued to be used by recruiters long after I disabled my account.

Everything you put on the Internet is available to everybody until the end of times. Internalize that and you'll be fine :)

> I disabled my account as an indication that I was no longer looking for work, contacting me in this way is fairly blatantly ignoring this preference.

Recruiters don't give a damn about your preferences. Just blacklist this guy.