Hello,
Someone is using my email address as their login name … is there anyway to remediate that?
I’ve gotten emails from mortgage brokers, feed stores and etc from over a thousand miles away.
I email and give them the identity theft speech …
Even my credit card company seems unfazed that someone is using my email as a login to their account.
I tried requesting a password reset, but I’m guessing that’s going to their actual email rather than my email.
Thanks for your time,
Bobby
In this situation, the only thing that worked for me was changing appointment times or deleting new accounts to annoy them into changing their login.
@Perfessor101 Welcome to the forum!
Does your question have anything to do with Bitwarden?
If another person’s use of your email address for their Bitwarden login is preventing you from setting up your own Bitwarden account using that same email address, then you have two options (you can use either, or both):
If the account that is currently using your email address has been set up to be hosted on the Bitwarden servers in the US region, then you may be able to set up your own account using the same email address, but hosted in the EU region (and vice versa).
Use Bitwarden’s Delete Account Form, select the correct Region (matching what the other person is using), then enter the email address and submit. You should get a confirmation email sent to your email address (the same address that you submitted on the form), with a link that will allow you to delete the other person’s account. After this is done, set up your own Bitwarden account using your email address (and a strong, unique master password); if you already have a Bitwarden account using a different, non-preferred email address, then you can go to Account Settings in the Web Vault and change your login username to your preferred email address.
I am sorry to hear this happened to you.
The thing to be careful in this case is that this is not an attempt to bury you with irrelevant emails so that you might miss ones that they want to hide. So, check your bank/financial/card emails carefully.
You email is more or less public, if you use it long enough. If someone decides to bombard you with irrelevant stuffs, there isn’t much you can do (except resetting their passwords and dropping all other recovery methods.) You probably have to wait it out, or set up another account for your important stuffs. Note that some email providers, like gmail, support plus addressing, i.e. both [email protected] and [email protected] goes to the former. So, you might be able to filter your emails this way too.