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

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An email address isn't good ID

There are many cases where there is one email address for a household, or where one partner uses the other's address. Not all ISPs give you multiple usernames or your own subdomain.

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