I requested a company remove an account someone made with my email address. I told them to verify email addresses before accepting new accounts in that request.
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I requested a company remove an account someone made with my email address. I told them to verify email addresses before accepting new accounts in that request.
They did remove the account and only gave me some basics like "you've probably been part of a data breach, please change your passwords and email address everywhere."
Or, you know, you can just fix your shit and verify accounts and none of this would have happened. (Something something GDPR)
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
(And lets be real, with even big telecom company breach here in the past, and other big names, whose information hasn't been in a data breach these days?)
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Mega “Byte” Matt :clippy:replied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh niet vergeten een AP melding te maken! Mijn *favoriete* hobby van het afgelopen jaar. Te veel grote IT bedrijven die er mee weg komen.
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Mega “Byte” Matt :clippy: last edited by
@megamatt Ik heb de dag van het verwijderverzoek (10 dagen geleden nu) bij het ACM een tip gedropt en een link naar Trustpilot met een hoop vergelijkbare verhalen. Ik ben benieuwd of ze er iets mee doen. AP heb ik deze keer niet gedaan, had nog gekund.
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@mahryekuh Got spam to an email addy which i use to communicate w/ just for 5 companies. Wondering who f’d up. 🤪
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@electricfusionQ Maybe more than one!
I know people who have a catch-all email domain and use a separate address for each company that asks for one. One had a store deny to his face that they sold their info when he literally got spam to an address with the store’s name in it.
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@mahryekuh Oh boy! I know it’a part of human’s nature to go for the benefit but sometimes i really think companies think we all are stupid.
You can do this w/ gmail too. Still having an account there but i don’t trust them anymore especially w/ private data. -
@electricfusionQ Most people are not very technical so they won’t think about these things. They shouldn’t have to think about these things because companies shouldn’t be screwing you over, but here we are.
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Brett Ritterreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh I have someone on Amazon using one of my email addresses. The company refuses to fix it, (I gave up after 4-5 separate times of trying) and keeps telling me to take it up with Gmail, as if they aren't the ones telling me all about someone else's purchases.
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Brett Ritter last edited by
@swiftone That is frustrating! Since you’re getting other people’s purchase info on your email address, you might legally get them on personal data leaks or impersonation or something. I’m not a lawyer but it sounds fishy.