[Romario77]

I logged in several times to other people's accounts and reset their passwords. But it's too tiring, people keep adding my email.

I hope it's because I have small simple email and not because they want to steal it.

[nativeit]

You’re confessing to several actual felonies here, may want to change strategies.

[kstrauser]

“…and so I made him the owner of my account, and he used that to remove himself from it!”

“We’ll be right over.”

[NikolaNovak]

Right. Techies are always quick to suggest I do something naughty or funny with this "great power" I've unwittingly gained, but in reality it's just a liability. If I ignore it and they do something nasty and implicate me, it's a pain. If I touch it with a 10 ft pole, now I'm even more actively involved.

Just include "not me!" In the verification email, dam it

[tracker1]

You give someone ownership of something and they used that ownership...

[ntoskrnl_exe]

I'm curious if this would really be considered unlawful access, since only pure idiocy and no hacking/scamming/etc were involved.

[jama211]

No harm done no one is gonna prosecute this

[cft]

In what jurisdiction? He's in Russia

[delecti]

Have you tried sending them emails asking/telling them to stop?

[kstrauser]

I’m a different person, but this happens to me, too. I have the [e-mail] email address because I signed up for it like 25 years ago. I log in every 6 months to see what the few other kstrausers in the world have signed me up for.

Not jsmith, but kstrauser. Not Gmail, but Yahoo. And I still get banking docs, and HOA meeting minutes, and birthday party invitations, and Facebook logins, and other bizarre random stuff.

I have so many questions. I’ve typoed my address before and had to correct it. That’s understandable. But to wholly invent one and say, yep, that looks good even though I’ve never used it before, I’m sure it’ll be fine! I just don’t get it.

[lawrencejgd]

>You write an email that says "Hey, can you please stop using my email address?"

>You send it to [e-mail]

>You receive a new message, it says "Hey, can you please stop using my email address?"

>You're [e-mail], you only know that's the address that's being used

PD: I know that if he resets the password he can get the other address, but this scenario was funny in my head.

[Mordisquitos]

That may be what they're hoping for, using a similar modus operandi as those WhatsApp/IM messages from strangers who text you with things in the vein of ‘Hey, it was great meeting you at the conference’ or ‘Did Martha like your flowers?’ etc.

They may well be looking for targets.

[tracker1]

There are times where you just can't... someone uses my email address in person at tractor supply co. and I'm getting a ton of marketing email I can't usnsub to.

I've had this happen several times... There's a lawyer I used for a dispute a few years ago, and they now have another "First Last" name that matches mine, and he keeps emailing me... my reply, "Wrong Michael, again..."

It's kind of annoying all around... I need to get off my butt and get a few things shifted, then just start relying on my own MTA again, instead of forwarding *@mydomain to my gmail to. I'll still wildcard the domain, but to a single mailbox on my own mta.

I'm not sure how bad the spam might get though... I've had a test account on my mta for a couple years and it hasn't really recived any... my wildcard accounts either... I use the wildcard so I can do things like walmart@mydomain, to see if/where an email address is sold/leaked from regarding spam.