Would you use someone else’s email address to sign up for a new account on a mobile phone app?
I mean, the constant emails that are hard to stop are a bit annoying…
In today’s story, a person decides to take revenge on the person who tried to send the junk mail to their email address instead.
Let’s see how the story continues…
I was driving home one evening, it was maybe 8:30 a.m., and my phone rang in my pocket.
It was the “general” notification.
I thought I had a calendar reminder for something.
When he returned home, he learned what the notice was for.
I got home and checked my notifications and found an email from chess.com saying “Welcome to Chess.com” and telling me that I could verify my account through the email.
Since I was driving and have no interest in having another account for anything, I assumed someone was using my email address as a disposable one.
After logging in, he understood why someone else was using his account.
So I signed up.
And I realized that the person who created the account was using it to gain XP and level (I’m not entirely familiar with chess.com’s leveling system, but I assume more games won means more levels).
They had their own account that they played against.
He still has the chess.com account.
So I changed the password and logged out of all devices.
Now I have a chess.com account that I didn’t sign up for.
But I changed the name to something snarky and the profile picture to the aliens meme.
I have never used it, but I will not let anyone else use it
It makes sense to change your password if someone else uses your email address to sign up for an app.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted…
This reader can understand the dilemma…
The same thing happened to another reader…
This person has the same problem and also decides to create “chaos”.
Another reader pointed out the meaning of the chess rating system.
It seems to be all too common for people to use someone else’s email address when signing up for accounts and apps.
Another disadvantage of living in the modern world.
If you liked the story, check out this post about a clueless CEO telling a web developer to “act like a paycheck”… and it leads to 30% of the workforce being laid off.
