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I’m in a bit of a battle with Facebook right now (been going on for over a year) where someone has signed up for Facebook with one of my email addresses. I coul
by freehunter 6y ago
I’m in a bit of a battle with Facebook right now (been going on for over a year) where someone has signed up for Facebook with one of my email addresses. I couldn’t do anything to stop it. I opened a support ticket and Facebook pretty much said “there is nothing we can do”. So I spammed the login page until Facebook locked the account. To which they then sent me a forgot password email which I clicked “this isn’t my account” and they again said “sorry about that but there is nothing we can do”.
At this point I’m fairly confident that the person cannot get into their account that uses my email address, but every few months I get an email that they’re trying to reset their password and I click the “this isn’t me” and Facebook says “sorry... nothing we can do”.
All because they don’t verify email addresses when someone signs up for an account.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI'm undecided on whether it would have been a good idea, but could you have reset the password (since it's your email), logged in, and deleted the account from there?
- CodeWriter23 6y agoUnless the 3rd party enabled 2FA
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThey didn't even verify their email. I'd be extremely surprised if they turned on two factor authentication.
- freehunter 6y agoI tried resetting the password but Facebook does a security challenge and won’t let me through.
- sova 6y agoDefinitely by design. "Introduce friction to prevent customer support tickets in the future? Ha!"
- tinus_hn 6y agoI’ve turned to canceling their accounts and responding with pretty harsh messages implying the person using my address is a moron who can’t type his own address. It’s not very nice but a lot more successful in getting them to quit entering my address, being nice just results in some half hearted apologies while the behavior continues.