Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by eli on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:32AM (#24306054)

I’d rather not commit a federal computer crime thanks

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:19PM (#24306719)

They provided false credentials. The account is yours.

I did this once when someone created a Facebook account using my address. I let it go for a year and then did a password reset and deletion. At the time there was no requirement for email verification so the account was fully functional. Again, this is Facebook's responsibility to verify new accounts. A confirmation email link is last century's technology.

Moreover, what happens if this doppelganger is committing crimes via said account and investigators track you down from the email. It is in your best interest to eliminate these accounts. Kindly explaining the situation to non-existent customer support will get you nowhere.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by dotBen on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:54PM (#24307908)

They provided false credentials. The account is yours.

IANAL but I don't think it works like that. Ownership is not the same as control.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:09PM (#24308148)

Ownership was never established in the first place.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by dotBen on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:45PM (#24309735)

Sure it was. I create an account, accept the terms and condition and put in your email address, your phone number and your street address. It's still my account, I am the one that accepted the conditions (you would cry foul if you were bound by the conditions you didn't accept).

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by willcipriano on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:31PM (#24310208)

If you want to be legalistic then the person who used the wrong email is in violation of CAN-SPAM[0], though my guess is courts don't have the time for petty matters like this.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by dotBen on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:49PM (#24318492)

Only if it was willful. We've kind lost the point of the OP but the example was accidental miss-typing and in my hypothetical above I meant accidentally

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:42PM (#24310330)

You have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds. An EULA is not a contract and they fully indemnify the service provider anyway. All you've done is initiate the creation of some database entries on someone else's property.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by dotBen on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:50PM (#24318500)

You have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds.

Yeah, no. Peace out dude, I'm done here.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by eli on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:56PM (#24307934)

I don't think this analysis is legally or ethically correct and I certainly would not want to have to test it against the CFAA in court.

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