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Someone did the same thing with my GMail to sign up for an Apple account. Of course I already own the account with my GMail; however, you can add periods anywhe
by cyberpanther 11y ago
Someone did the same thing with my GMail to sign up for an Apple account. Of course I already own the account with my GMail; however, you can add periods anywhere in the address or add "+tag-name" and it all goes to the same place. So the following all route to the same address.
firstnameLastname@gmail.com
firstname.Lastname@gmail.com
firstnameLastname+tagname@gmail.com
So there are infinite permutations of your address that could be used even if you are successful in blocking your default address. Most systems including Apple don't recognize these as the same address.
- orionblastar 11y agoSo there is no way to stop people from using my gmail account to get on sex and dating sites? If I block one form of my address there are countless others they could use? I don't see how I can prevent this, and I don't want to lose my Gmail account because I have bank accounts and other stuff tied to it.
- cyberpanther 11y agoI guess you could use the reverse approach. Make up a tag or tags that are valid and delete everything else automatically. The hard part would be updating your email everywhere.
- theaccordance 11y agoWell they're not getting on if they can't acknowledge the confirmation email, so they're not technically using your email account.
- orionblastar 11y agoThe sites don't require a confirmation email. They just enter any email address and it never confirms it, it just starts sending dating suggestions, etc to the email entered.