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It's happened to me, repeatedly. This is the legacy of anyone who got a desirable gmail name from signing up in the early beta. What was most impressive was wh
by AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
It's happened to me, repeatedly. This is the legacy of anyone who got a desirable gmail name from signing up in the early beta.
What was most impressive was when I called Amazon to complain that someone opened an AWS account using my email addy fraudulently. They did several things to try to prove that I was the one lying (sent a confirmation email that I never clicked, sent a verification email which I was able to read back over the phone), and even confirmed from logs that the offending party bypassed the e-mail signup verification process by using a phone number rather than email address.
They made some vague promise that they would open an investigation and close it if they deemed it fraudulent. They never did. My guess is that they are siding with random-fraudster-with-Indian-IP because he's the one that will (potentially) pay them money.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThe solution is to just request a password reset and own "your" account.
- sadfklsjlkjwt 7y agoBad idea. This could get called identity theft. Also you would really be on the hook for the bill!
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThe account was created under fraudulent pretenses. Amazon didn't perform any due diligence to confirm the email and already considers you the owner. Just take it over and shut it down.
- funkymike 7y agoI had to resort to this for an Ebay account that someone opened with my email address. I finally got sick of them not fixing it so I used the email-based password reset feature to login, change the password, then closed the account.
- ben509 7y agoSomeone would have to figure out who to call an identity thief, who purchased the goods, who to send the bill collectors after, who to serve for a lawsuit, etc. All the company has is an email address and a bunch of other incorrect information.
- sadfklsjlkjwt 7y agoAnd an IP address. And the previous contact with their support asking for the error to be resolved.
- ben509 7y agoI've done this repeatedly. I like to put mildly insulting things in all the form fields before I lock out the account entirely.