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Some moron used my gmail address

CPA

CPA

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for their Match.com registration. I have their complete logon and access to their profile, as well, I have started to receive emails for winks, matches and favorites. The profile seems legit and not something that was setup to harass me with, though I can't figure out why he used me gmail address.

Have no way of telling the guy (who lives in Tampa, btw) that he used the wrong email address, other than messing with his profile comments.

Guess, I'll have to try to get this resolved through Match.com customer support.
 
Total makeover time. Make him the nerdiest man alive. Job: Library of Congress - Curator of 19th Century Lamp Shades. Hobbies - Worm Farming, Competition Soil Classification.
 
IronWing said:
Total makeover time. Make him the nerdiest man alive. Job: Library of Congress - Curator of 19th Century Lamp Shades. Hobbies - Worm Farming, Competition Soil Classification.
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If you were especially nasty, you could give him the internet handle of one of our more...uhhhhhh...dynamic...members so that would appear on internet searches. :sneaky:
 
CPA said:
for their Match.com registration. I have their complete logon and access to their profile, as well, I have started to receive emails for winks, matches and favorites. The profile seems legit and not something that was setup to harass me with, though I can't figure out why he used me gmail address.

Have no way of telling the guy (who lives in Tampa, btw) that he used the wrong email address, other than messing with his profile comments.

Guess, I'll have to try to get this resolved through Match.com customer support.
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I had the exact same thing happen a few months ago but I think it was for cougarlife. It was some dude in Australia. I just got the account password, and deleted the account. He hadn't put any money into it that I could tell, so I figured he could just re-make the account.
 
What I really want to know is what is the OP's email address. For him to be already getting so many winks and matches, it must contain sexual references.
 
Photoshop zits, cuts, bruises and other marks on his face, but only do like one at a time. See how long it takes for him to notice.
 
Baked said:
What I really want to know is what is the OP's email address. For him to be already getting so many winks and matches, it must contain sexual references.
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nope, it's innocuous and contains my ATOT name.
 
OutHouse said:
isnt there some kind of email verification for making new accounts?
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doesn't seem to be. In fact, the second email I received contained a Welcom for signing up, the username, password, zipcode, date of birth, gender and "searching for". All of it was printed plain as day in the email.
 
Another kind of phishing scam: Make it appear that someone is using your email address by sending emails that appear to be from a dating service that normally requires verification. Tempt recipient to log in and create humorous profile modifications with a simple password "recovery." Use email and new password on various other sites to see if it gains access to financial accounts and what-not. Profit.
 
CZroe said:
Another kind of phishing scam: Make it appear that someone is using your email address by sending emails that appear to be from a dating service that normally requires verification. Tempt recipient to log in and create humorous profile modifications with a simple password "recovery." Use email and new password on various other sites to see if it gains access to financial accounts and what-not. Profit.
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I thought that at first, so I went directly to Match.com browser rather than the link in the email. Enter in username and password, and voila! I get this guy's page. Like someone else said, I think he just used what he thought would be a fake email address to set up an account.
 
Haha this whole thread is that so CPA can try to smooth things over with the wife after she caught him on Match.com..........

It happens to the best of us CPA, enjoy the couch.
 
An accountant somewhere is wondering why he hasn't received a confirmation email from match.com. Forever alone...
 
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