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I have a comcast email named after an old movie monster. Turns out that a former comcast customer once had the same account, and registered it with google (and
by kagakuninja 3y ago
I have a comcast email named after an old movie monster. Turns out that a former comcast customer once had the same account, and registered it with google (and others). Not only can I not use that address with google services, creating google calendar events using my email will sent the notification to the other guy (as a result, I created another email address for job interviews).
Every year I get several notifications that this guy has done something with his x-box, or registered a new device for something or other. It is absolutely nuts, and companies like Google refuse to let people like myself claim our own email addresses.
- philote 3y agoIf you own the Comcast email address, how is he registering anything with it? Wouldn't he need access to the email to verify his accounts?
- bobthecowboy 3y agoBecause a shocking number of services don't actually require you to verify you control the email address. I'm talking about mainstream services like Spotify. I'm in a similar situation, except in my case, the person providing the wrong email address never controlled it - it's firstnamelastname@gmail.com, which I signed up for when gmail was still invite only. If I go to sign up for a service that someone else has signed up for with my email, I just do a password reset, and take control of the account. Either by transferring it to another email address that doesn't exist and then creating a new account, or if that doesn't work I just nuke the data.
- kagakuninja 3y agoHe used to own the account, now I own it. I've tried resetting the google account password and the like, there seems to be nothing I can do.