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Ask HN: I'm getting emails about trial accounts on sites I don't recognise
5 points by amihacked 15 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
I’m seeing emails for a few services at my primary personal gmail account that I don’t know anything about, e.g. A shopify trial account in the Germany region (I do not live there and I've never signed up for a Shopify account) and an account on a ticket resale site that I didn't know existed.

I don’t understand how someone could have done this without being able to verify the account by receiving and clicking on an email, yet I recognise every device/access on Google’s list of devices. I also have 2FA enabled.

I've obviously changed my password and invoked Shopify's 30 day delete on my PII - the trial has expired so I cannot get past the "pay us money to do anything" wall and delete the shop myself.

What could I be missing? Could this be someone with remote access to one my devices and able to defeat 2FA?





“ emails for a few services”

You mean these emails are more than just a first verification step to check that your email address exists and to confirm that you want to sign up as a new user?


The emails say things like "upgrade your trial account now" or "you might be interested in these other products". I have not seen any welcome or request to verify emails.

Unless you’ve got evidence to the contrary: this sounds most likely to be spam campaigns that’s being sent to millions of email addresses, from leaked lists or random generated.

One of the emails is yours


What's your email? lol

More specific:

@OP: If your email is john.smith@gmail.com there are probably a few idiots Jonh Smith out there that don't remember their email and fill your email instead. If your email is ju3hh4y3g79us99fahh0827@gmail.com probably your email is leaked and some idiot is sending fake email for grow hacking or just phishing.




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