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I have not had anyone accuse me of fraud yet, but I have had email addresses rejected because they too obviously contained the company name in them.
by rootusrootus 2y ago
I have not had anyone accuse me of fraud yet, but I have had email addresses rejected because they too obviously contained the company name in them.
- sunaookami 2y agoSamsung does this for example! You can't register a Samsung account if your email contains the word "Samsung"...
- eddd-ddde 2y agoI think this might be a lazy attempt to protect users from scammers trying to impersonate the company. There are people that will read an email from "SamsungCeo@gmail.com" and think it's actually from the owner of the company...
- seabass-labrax 2y agoI would venture a guess that there is an equal proportion of company executives who would think that creating and using an email address like 'CompanyCeo@gmail.com' was completely fine - an awareness of internet scams is not correlated with business acumen!
- jeeva 2y agoAlso frustrating when a company adds it after you register, e.g. Spotify allowed me to use spotify@ at one point, now I can't register anything with that word in .