Timeline for Why would someone open a Netflix account using my Gmail address?
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| May 16, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | iheanyi | Sure, but "the dots" were not an issue here. So I cannot see how your answer is relevant to this question. Making true statements about something tangentially related does not an answer make. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 2:10 | comment | added | mckenzm | But they can send email to [email protected], and so can Netflix. It still resolves to [email protected] once it hits the gmail servers. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 1:33 | comment | added | David M | In regards to "Dots don't matter", other addresses without said dots can't exist: "Your Gmail address is unique. If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already taken. For example, if your address is [email protected], no one can sign up for [email protected]." | |
| May 14, 2019 at 23:04 | comment | added | mckenzm | Because if the dots mattered, gmail would not deliver mail to you with non-matching dots. Netflix sees two addresses. gmail.com sees them as the same address. OP does not have Netflix, so unless it is a speculative attack, the normal gmail address of the OP was not scraped from Netflix after a collision. | |
| May 14, 2019 at 16:59 | comment | added | iheanyi | I don't see how the "dots don't matter" policy factors into things here. | |
| May 14, 2019 at 7:01 | history | edited | schroeder♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Removed the shade thrown at an entire country. Hackers live everywhere... |
| May 13, 2019 at 18:15 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| May 13, 2019 at 5:48 | history | answered | mckenzm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |