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    If someone registers an account with your information, is it really their account? Commented May 12, 2019 at 21:48
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    @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. Commented May 12, 2019 at 23:27
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    This is almost certainly someone abusing Netflix's free trials, not directly attacking OP. Commented May 13, 2019 at 1:01
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    @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 Commented May 13, 2019 at 1:56
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    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". Commented May 13, 2019 at 11:07