Ask HN: Someone is using my email to register to a bunch of services Hey all, In the last 20 minutes, I got probably around 200 emails congratulating me on registering to the website/newsletter. This is my personal email In addition, my credit card has been used to purchase 850$ worth of goods (called Amex, canceled the card). I changed my email password obviously, canceled the card. What else can I do? Did this ever happen to you? Have any advice? |
This seems like a type of DDOS attack to hide an email from a financial service.
All of these emails are essentially meant to hide the order of 850$ in the flurry of other emails.
Some information from a Google thread: https://support.google.com/mail/forum/AAAAK7un8RUCTPjR3thcdQ...
For well designed sites that require verification before the account is setup, just trash the message.
For other stuff, you may have to unsubscribe.
Worst case scenario for something like a dating sites or whatever, you can just reset the password, then login and delete/deactivate the account.
I am getting ~300 of these from different websites, newsletters, etc.
https://assets.avi.io/Contact_form_-_avikensodev.com_-_Kenso...
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
