In the late 90s there was an email service in India that mailed you a check if you logged in a minimum number of times a month (heady dotcom dayz). I received a

In the late 90s there was an email service in India that mailed you a check if you logged in a minimum number of times a month (heady dotcom dayz). I received a few $5 checks - in Rupees that was a decent amount of pocket money for a student! While playing around once, I figured that if you entered the answer to the "Pet's name" security question as "pet's name" verbatim, it gave you the password in plain text! And this for _any_ account. It was fun hacking into email accounts. I tried to persuade the girl I had a crush on at the time to join the service saying she could get money if she uses the service. She never did. Woman's intuition I guess.