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I wish more places would validate their email. In the past two days I've been informed that I know have a Playstation, EA, and Blizzard account because someone

I wish more places would validate their email. In the past two days I've been informed that I know have a Playstation, EA, and Blizzard account because someone signed up with my email address (just without the dots.) Only Blizzard tried to confirm the email address. The other two created the account, and now won't let me disown the accounts. I can go through the forgot password process and turn them off, but I'm not sure how kosher that is.

janekk 13y ago
Have you ever crafted a sign-up form for a paid app though? Requiring users go and check their email before they can proceed is going to kill conversions. Mail providers (I use mandrill) also deliberately throttle outgoing email - I've seen them delayed by several minutes.