My email address is nothing too original (in the profile if you want to check) but it contains a dot. As you might know, gmail ignores dots in the addresses so nico.aragon and nicoaragon are basically the same.
Well it seems that Paypal decided recently that why bother confirming email addresses. Just let anyone use any email address. They send a confirmation email, yes. But then accept the address no matter if they receive the answer or not.
So I start getting notices of some not very bright namesake that is making tens of cents with some online store. The spanish paypal office is totally useless, they just suggested to contact Google.
I sent a mail message to the European Paypal delegate for data protection, but no answer and I still get more notifications later. It's quieter now, after another confirmation email (that I obviously didn't answer) but no idea if they did something or it's just that the account owner is not selling so much later.
Edit: years ago I got a "nico" account in a very popular local provider, so I had experienced the og problem before. Some other namesake is gay (maybe he's the pornstar that I see in Google) and received some explicit pictures.
> Well it seems that Paypal decided recently that why bother confirming email addresses. Just let anyone use any email address. They send a confirmation email, yes. But then accept the address no matter if they receive the answer or not.
Hah, I don't remember receiving a confirmation email. Unfortunately, there's no way to disavow an email address from someone's account either, which means I can't use that particular email for PayPal.
Well it seems that Paypal decided recently that why bother confirming email addresses. Just let anyone use any email address. They send a confirmation email, yes. But then accept the address no matter if they receive the answer or not.
So I start getting notices of some not very bright namesake that is making tens of cents with some online store. The spanish paypal office is totally useless, they just suggested to contact Google.
I sent a mail message to the European Paypal delegate for data protection, but no answer and I still get more notifications later. It's quieter now, after another confirmation email (that I obviously didn't answer) but no idea if they did something or it's just that the account owner is not selling so much later.
Edit: years ago I got a "nico" account in a very popular local provider, so I had experienced the og problem before. Some other namesake is gay (maybe he's the pornstar that I see in Google) and received some explicit pictures.