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Know your email address
Someone has remembered their email address wrong and told everyone what's actually my Gmail address, that I've owned since the early days of Gmail. Surely he's missing a dot or a hyphen or some letter somewhere, because that address is mine and not his, and now I'm getting a lot of email directed to that person!
On another note, iTunes doesn't used what's called closed-loop email address verification. When a new user signs up and inputs an email address, usually they would receive an email asking to click an included link in order to confirm that the email address is correct, but iTunes doesn't take this precaution.
Because of that, that same person was able to sign up to iTunes with my Gmail address! The worse though is that now I'm receiving his iTunes invoice emails containing billing address, last 4 digits of credit card and of course the list of all what he's been buying.
Of course I have reported this mistake and flaw to Apple right away, and I sure hope they'll give him a quick call (hoping that he gave the right phone number). But either way I have a feeling that I won't stop getting emails intended for him...
Posted on June 13, 2008 at 22:28 | Tweet
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Sounds very tiring but it's in fact more than interesting enough for a blog post.
By the way are you sure he's not you?
↑ I'm so sad about being completely uncapable of writing fun English.
Posted by ale/pepino on June 14, 2008 at 00:41
This would be a cool mistake if you were single and all the people sending you mail by were hot chicks or money for free.
but that doesn't happen in real life ;-(
Posted by Roy on June 14, 2008 at 09:11
Haha :)
At least I got an email from Apple saying that I shouldn't receive anymore of his invoices. Good thing.
Posted by Patrick on June 14, 2008 at 12:37