Reply to post: Re: Doesn't just happen with email

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

Graham 32

Re: Doesn't just happen with email

I had that with an ISP. Had the "thanks for joining us" letter turn up, wrong name, but definitely my address. I contacted them to say it wasn't me, they said just ignore it. A few days later my ISP emails to say sorry I was leaving. I phone my ISP, they say phone the other ISP who says phone my ISP who, to their credit, did stop it. Then a week or so later I come home from work and there's a parcel by my front door: a router. I phoned, said no way was I paying to send it back. They said keep it. It was one of those crappy Thomson things. Meh.

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