Timeline for Why would someone open a Netflix account using my Gmail address?
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| May 15, 2019 at 10:58 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @rshepp Re "The OP also hasn't accepted any terms and conditions or any other prerequisites for creating an account": Good for them ;-). Never agreed, cannot violate. (This may or may not affect any other legal assessments, like whether the OP violated the vague CFAA. ) | |
| May 15, 2019 at 0:52 | comment | added | user196716 | @Mischa From the original question: "This was addressed to someone with a different real name, with that name not similar in any way to the Gmail name." | |
| May 14, 2019 at 13:23 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | Everyone: the concept of "authorised access" has nothing to do with who's name or email is on the account or how easy it is to log in. As security professionals, please understand this basic legal point. If someone with my name opens an account and mistakenly uses my email address instead of his own, closely related email address, that does not mean that I am authorised to access the account. | |
| May 14, 2019 at 13:21 | comment | added | Mischa | @rshepp this is not a "package delivered to the wrong address by mistake" this is a PersonAB saying "I want this to be sent to Person XY, put his name and address on it" | |
| May 13, 2019 at 11:07 | comment | added | Damon | This is likely the correct idea. I'm saying that because the same happened to me some 2-3 months ago.Without anything else, I wrote to customer support "I got this e-mail, ref no. blah blah, and I am not a customer of yours". Reply was like: "Oh, well thank you for the notice, we have deactivated the account". | |
| May 13, 2019 at 1:56 | comment | added | DreamConspiracy | @NonnyMoose based on my limited legal knowledge, accounts always belong to people (physical human beings) and never to the different virtual manifestations of people that exist | |
| May 13, 2019 at 1:01 | comment | added | Roland Heath | This is almost certainly someone abusing Netflix's free trials, not directly attacking OP. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 23:27 | comment | added | user196716 | @NonnyMoose I would argue the account still belongs to the person who created it. If a package with your name on it is shipped to the wrong address, does the person who lives there have the right to open your package? Also, the account likely has personal information belonging to the account's true creator/owner - name, address, date of birth, etc. The OP also hasn't accepted any terms and conditions or any other prerequisites for creating an account. In this instance, I would email Netflix and explain the situation to them rather than log into the account and snoop around. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | Nonny Moose | If someone registers an account with your information, is it really their account? | |
| May 12, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | Hatted Rooster | Hmm, apparently the "your account has been suspended" is seen a lot in the wild when it comes to phising. Maybe this is indeed a phising attempt and the phisers wanted OP to click on Forgotten password to give up a re-used password. Or to add payment information. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 15:14 | history | answered | schroeder♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |