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Reset their account passwords.
by wycy 6y ago
Reset their account passwords.
- eli 6y agoI’d rather not commit a federal computer crime thanks
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThey provided false credentials. The account is yours. I did this once when someone created a Facebook account using my address. I let it go for a year and then did a password reset and deletion. At the time there was no requirement for email verification so the account was fully functional. Again, this is Facebook's responsibility to verify new accounts. A confirmation email link is last century's technology. Moreover, what happens if this doppelganger is committing crimes via said account and investigators track you down from the email. It is in your best interest to eliminate these accounts. Kindly explaining the situation to non-existent customer support will get you nowhere.
- dotBen 6y agoThey provided false credentials. The account is yours. IANAL but I don't think it works like that. Ownership is not the same as control.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoOwnership was never established in the first place.
- dotBen 6y agoSure it was. I create an account, accept the terms and condition and put in your email address, your phone number and your street address. It's still my account, I am the one that accepted the conditions (you would cry foul if you were bound by the conditions you didn't accept).
- willcipriano 6y agoIf you want to be legalistic then the person who used the wrong email is in violation of CAN-SPAM[0], though my guess is courts don't have the time for petty matters like this. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
- dotBen 6y agoOnly if it was willful. We've kind lost the point of the OP but the example was accidental miss-typing and in my hypothetical above I meant accidentally
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoYou have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds. An EULA is not a contract and they fully indemnify the service provider anyway. All you've done is initiate the creation of some database entries on someone else's property.
- dotBen 6y agoYou have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds. Yeah, no. Peace out dude, I'm done here.
- eli 6y agoI don't think this analysis is legally or ethically correct and I certainly would not want to have to test it against the CFAA in court.