I just have to make a post about this because this has happened multiple times in the resent years…
I just tried to open a new ebay account with one of my alternative email accounts because I listed many items for sale on ebay with my main account and html code linked images from Imgur are not being displayed so I want to see what it’s like when viewed from a different account. But it tells me an account already exists. I try a few passwords but all wrong. So I reset the password. The name in the email is Craig, so I log in into this “new” ebay account and some one has created that account with my email, I had all his detail – name, address in the US, phone number, all of it… Of course I changed it all to my details so no funny business can happen later.
But why do people do it? I had the same with facebook maybe a couple of years, I think with Twitch just prior to that, and even then I remember I was already thinking “why do people do that” because it had happened before but I can’t remember which websites they were.
Is it just me or does it happen to others too? I do have multiple email accounts, it’s not always the same account.
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