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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by ValentineC on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:07PM (#23440616)
> At one point, her husband used my fiance's email to register a bank account. We called the bank and after explaining the situation were able to CORRECT the email address for her (we decided that a bank account was serious enough to fix it rather than just be annoyed).

Heh, someone else managed to attach their PayPal account to my email address, and there's no way for me to disavow or remove it.

Thankfully, I've never been able to recover their password because PayPal requires more user information that I don't know.

Unfortunately that also means that I'll never be able to create a PayPal account with that email address.

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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by netsharc on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:40PM (#23443659)
PayPal does allow the "+" suffix for the user part, so you could do [email protected] and the mails they send will end up at [email protected] (it's part of RFC 2822, and it works for Yahoo, GMail (I've tried both), apparently outlook.com, and maybe others: https://www.ghacks.net/2013/09/17/can-now-use-email-aliases-... ).

When I moved countries, PayPal didn't let me change my country of residency, so now I have a user+[2 letter country code]@domain for the PayPal account in the new country. For IKEA it was a bit more silly because they seem to have several customer-facing systems, and 1 system worked fine but another didn't like this concept (I couldn't log in)...

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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by anaxag0ras on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:19PM (#23441203)
I have been receiving emails from HDFC bank intended for someone else. And I've never even been to India.

Its all sorts of email like OTP and statements and other stuff.

The email always comes from [email protected], so I haven't been able to report about it either.

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