Septimus Prime
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As far as I know, this doesn't have much effect on me, other than I get a bunch of unwanted emails.
As you may or may not know, Gmail ignores any periods you add into your email address, so, for example, neogaf123@gmail and neo.gaf123@gmail will both point to the same recipient. It looks like someone is taking advantage of this quirk to sign up for things using a variant of my account name (so, if my email address were neogaf1@gmail--which it's not--someone is signing up using something like neoga.f1@gmail).
At first, it was PSN. Someone in Europe signed up for a free month of PS Plus. I assumed this was probably someone who just bought a PS4 in Europe and put in a throwaway email address. I did call Sony to make sure nothing got tied to my account.
But then he never stopped. Now I'm getting confirmation emails from other things he's signing up for, like soccer leagues and some other things coming in foreign languages.
Is there anything I can do to stop this? I have no idea who this person is.
As you may or may not know, Gmail ignores any periods you add into your email address, so, for example, neogaf123@gmail and neo.gaf123@gmail will both point to the same recipient. It looks like someone is taking advantage of this quirk to sign up for things using a variant of my account name (so, if my email address were neogaf1@gmail--which it's not--someone is signing up using something like neoga.f1@gmail).
At first, it was PSN. Someone in Europe signed up for a free month of PS Plus. I assumed this was probably someone who just bought a PS4 in Europe and put in a throwaway email address. I did call Sony to make sure nothing got tied to my account.
But then he never stopped. Now I'm getting confirmation emails from other things he's signing up for, like soccer leagues and some other things coming in foreign languages.
Is there anything I can do to stop this? I have no idea who this person is.