For changing the password

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Someone in the United States has been using my email address for their Arbonne account (I'm pretty sure it's a multi level marketing company).

Every once in a while I get emails confirming their order of vitamin sachets and grooming products. It doesn't really bother me as it's only this one company, it's not like this person uses my email address for everything.

Today however, I decided to log in to that person's account and change the password after another email confirming order. I figured they wouldn't be able to log in and then they'd have to open up a new account using their own email address.

However, I now feel bad about it. I was petty and should have just left it. As I said, it's not as if it's a huge inconvenience to me.

What do you think? Was I unreasonable and mean for doing this?

I wasn't talking about unsubscribing in the post you replied to, I was talking about blocking the address entirely

For my email "blocking" just sends it to the spam filter. It's not like texting where you can block a number altogether.

I was petty and should have just left it. As I said, it's not as if it's a huge inconvenience to me

I don't think you are petty. It is an inconvenience when it keeps happening. My mum has had emails for people in Canada, Ireland and Australia! And my husband gets them for people in Jersey and Leicester. It just shouldn't happen.

Of course it's not deliberate How would it be beneficial in any way for the stranger to give the OP access to her name, her address, her contact number, her credit card info, her security answers etc by signing up to this website and then handing all her personal information over to the OP by using the OP's email address?

I know, that's what I said.

Not dictating, making a suggestion 😘 Just checking, can you actually read? I clearly wrote ‘may I suggest’ that’s all. Hope you’re okay hun xxx

Of course it's not deliberate How would it be beneficial in any way for the stranger to give the OP access to her name, her address, her contact number, her credit card info, her security answers etc by signing up to this website and then handing all her personal information over to the OP by using the OP's email address?

If it's an MLM they could easily be using numerous accounts to boost their own ratings or get different discounts, birthday bonuses etc at different times of the year.

Even if it's a genuine mistake, the OP has done nothing wrong.

My husband has had his email address since Apple set up in 2000. He was one of the very first and it's a very brief but memorable one. Very obviously his.

About 10 years ago a person in America was giving it out as hers. We had flight reservations, hotel booking confirmations, car rentals, purchase receipts, lots of others. Repeatedly.

He'd contact the companies and it would stop for a while, then start up again. We didn't have her telephone number to alert her.

I really think this person in America just kept forgetting her correct email.

After a great many years of putting up with this he lost his patience. The next time flights and hotel bookings came through he changed them....

It stopped about 5 years ago and she's not used the email again since. I think it was the inconvenience that helped her remember her own, correct email.

@girlmom21
If it's an MLM they could easily be using numerous accounts to boost their own ratings or get different discounts, birthday bonuses etc at different times of the year.

You can do that by creating any number of free email accounts you want. What would be the need to compromise getting your personal information stolen from a stranger you don't know by linking your personal information to their email account?

@Keyansier aren't you the poster who defrauds supermarkets? Double standards much

You’re assuming theives never do stupid things. They do. That’s how they usually get caught.

I’ve had this before, it can get very annoying so I sympathise.

It’s amazing how some inconvenience can sharpen the mind 😉

I totally lost patience when, having had her friends personal emails, gym emails, work rotas, she then signed me up for all her bloody college notifications! She can’t have been recieving ANY emails to her actual inbox.
I just told the college and her work that I resigned / quit as I’d never actually signed up and she never used my email address again…

😂😂😂

Hahaha @Keyansier 😆 the fraud committed is the person using the ops email obviously

It’s not the marketing emails she is talking about, but the payment receipts etc so unsubscribe wouldn’t work.

what offence do you think this is?

OP,would have been better to contact the company and ask them to change it, or they might have a phone number, but I can see why you did it and I don’t think you were unreasonable as it’s very annoying.

@Keyansier

You are talking such utter rubbish when it comes to legislation

Hang on, if the OP was able to use her email address to log into this account, then clearly the person who is using the account also has to use the OP’s email address to log into said account. So clearly the other person knows full well she’s using a wrong email address, so it is absolutely deliberate on the other’ person’s part.

Chances are she doesn’t want to be scammed by Arbon so is using what she thinks is a fake email address. I’ve done, it signed on to things using a”b.com etc but invariably it’s just to log on to some free wifi somewhere or the like.

But while it’s easy enough to use a wrong email address to subscribe to something and then wonder why you never get the emails, it absolutely wouldn’t be as easy to use a wrong email to subscribe to a product which you have to use that email to log into every tie you use it.

Is it a gmail/Google mail account?
Someone I know has their unusual name @googlemail, and was occasionally receiving someone else's emails, which were unusual name @gmail . I think Google assumes that gmail/Google mail are interchangeable.

Or it's just auto filled by their browser so they don't spot the issue.

I have this on one email account -someone has their Facebook account tied to my email, I can't get into the Facebook account as don't recognise their friends, they can't get in as recovery email goes to me. It will be active forever!

They are interchangeable, if you have [email protected], you will also get emails for [email protected]. once someone has [email protected] it's impossible for someone to sign up to sign up to [email protected] as the account already exists.

Additional tip, Gmail also ignores periods, so bobbobson@, b.o.b.b.o.b.s.o.n@ and every combination in between also all belong to you

Thanks for confirming the gmail thing. According to Google the error shouldn't have happened, but it did - this person has had the @googlemail email from very early days.

You've just completely made that up. What are you even talking about?