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Reminds me of the time when someone has created PlayStation account using my email and I was unable to take over that account, as I did not know answers to secu

by butz 4y ago

Reminds me of the time when someone has created PlayStation account using my email and I was unable to take over that account, as I did not know answers to security questions. Seriously, even large companies should've made email verification mandatory not only in case of user error, but malicious, or just plain annoying use of other people email address. Not to mention getting account banned and unable to use your email on platform when you might actually need it. Back to the topic: now that you've changed password on account, maybe you could just leave it as is, that way no one will be able to re-create mentioned account again. Although that still leaves the opportunity for malicious user trying to recover that account, but I'd bet he doesn't know security answers either.

nathanaldensr 4y ago
It's stunning to me that Apple of all companies apparently can't get this right. If they can't, who can?
lobstersammich 4y ago
My email address is fname.lname@gmail.com and I get dozens of these account signups per year. You'd be surprised at the mobile phone companies, banks, and other accounts which do not require you to verify that an email account is yours before you are able to use that email address for your mobile phone, banking, tax returns, health insurance accounts. And it's not just limited to not-tech-savvy Americans either: I get Canadians, Australians, Brits, etc. all using my email address as if it were their own. One added 'benefit' from this is that by receiving all of these emails for other FName LName people who mistakenly use my email address it muddies the data that Google sells to Facebook. Having made a Facebook account many years ago that has been dormant for over a decade I was surprised to see upon logging into the Facebook account that "my purchases" at [American chain store] were being used to make recommendations on Facebook. I've never purchased anything that [American chain store] in my life, but I do receive DOZENS of e-receipts for a person in South Carolina who has electronic receipts sent to my email address for $1,000 home goods items. Additionally, the ads that Facebook shows me also conveys that their ad system thinks that I'm a healthcare worker in Australia because I received an Australian healthcare worker's test results / certification to practice as a healthcare worker at my FName.LName@gmail.com email address.

by butz 4y ago

nathanaldensr 4y ago

It's stunning to me that Apple of all companies apparently can't get this right. If they can't, who can?

lobstersammich 4y ago

My email address is fname.lname@gmail.com and I get dozens of these account signups per year. You'd be surprised at the mobile phone companies, banks, and other accounts which do not require you to verify that an email account is yours before you are able to use that email address for your mobile phone, banking, tax returns, health insurance accounts. And it's not just limited to not-tech-savvy Americans either: I get Canadians, Australians, Brits, etc. all using my email address as if it were their own. One added 'benefit' from this is that by receiving all of these emails for other FName LName people who mistakenly use my email address it muddies the data that Google sells to Facebook. Having made a Facebook account many years ago that has been dormant for over a decade I was surprised to see upon logging into the Facebook account that "my purchases" at [American chain store] were being used to make recommendations on Facebook. I've never purchased anything that [American chain store] in my life, but I do receive DOZENS of e-receipts for a person in South Carolina who has electronic receipts sent to my email address for $1,000 home goods items. Additionally, the ads that Facebook shows me also conveys that their ad system thinks that I'm a healthcare worker in Australia because I received an Australian healthcare worker's test results / certification to practice as a healthcare worker at my FName.LName@gmail.com email address.