My Gmail address is really generic (my first name and a number), and I too get signups all the time - I even currently have two different people's bank accounts sending me email.
I feel kind of bad, because one of them from Wells Fargo has been telling the person that one of their accounts has been closed and their automatic bill payments from it have been stopped - so I hope they worked that out before they were kicked out of a rental place or something...
There's really nothing I can do - all bank's contact methods require you to log into their account to send a "secure message", which I can't do (I do sometimes cancel people's accounts who use my email using the "Forgot password" recovery, but I'm not going to do that on someone's bank account, and you'd need their social security number with most banks anyway), and I have no idea what their real email address would be.
So, please let this be a lesson to anyone who makes services people sign up for: Always send a confirmation email where if you don't confirm it doesn't send you emails, or at least please send a welcome email having a link where people can disassociate their email address if it's incorrect. I've only seen Google doing this latter part properly...
And, if another service requires me to log into somebody else's account to stop it spamming me... Seriously, just make it one-click unsubscribe...
>My Gmail address is really generic (my first name and a number), and I too get signups all the time - I even currently have two different people's bank accounts sending me email.
We've seen the same. Of all places you'd think (hope) that banks would have a handle on such things.
I feel kind of bad, because one of them from Wells Fargo has been telling the person that one of their accounts has been closed and their automatic bill payments from it have been stopped - so I hope they worked that out before they were kicked out of a rental place or something...
There's really nothing I can do - all bank's contact methods require you to log into their account to send a "secure message", which I can't do (I do sometimes cancel people's accounts who use my email using the "Forgot password" recovery, but I'm not going to do that on someone's bank account, and you'd need their social security number with most banks anyway), and I have no idea what their real email address would be.
So, please let this be a lesson to anyone who makes services people sign up for: Always send a confirmation email where if you don't confirm it doesn't send you emails, or at least please send a welcome email having a link where people can disassociate their email address if it's incorrect. I've only seen Google doing this latter part properly...
And, if another service requires me to log into somebody else's account to stop it spamming me... Seriously, just make it one-click unsubscribe...