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A false positive from your perspective doesn't mean your email address isn't actually being used to sign up for things. My primary personal email address is ro
by harlanlewis 10y ago
A false positive from your perspective doesn't mean your email address isn't actually being used to sign up for things.
My primary personal email address is routinely used by a small handful of other real people (all strangers) for all sorts of things - college applications, car insurance, some address books think it belongs to a cousin who gets included in a lot of group threads about reunions and full of photos. I've found the families more difficult to unsubscribe from than the services, name+email associations spread like a virus. I routinely get alarming/misleading "Someone has your password!" security alerts from Google after someone tries to list my email as a backup account.
These little strings we use to identify ourselves can be typed by anyone, anywhere, bot or human. I wouldn't worry too much about false positives.
- thwarted 10y agoI wouldn't worry too much about false positives. It's not that I'm worried, it's that it's a distraction. When the margin of error is high enough, it becomes less signal and more noise, which leads to either panic (spending all your time managing access credentials) or complacency (ignoring the indicators).
- manishyt 10y agoI have the same problem. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle such emails?