This is kinda standard practice for many of the tech companies… I’ve had to provide such information to Google, I think I declined last time but it was some rights for Youtube that time, it’s also something that Facebook do ask some users if they think you’re not using your real name…
Microsoft locked my account (one week after forcing me to migrate from my Mojang account), and they require a phone number for “verification”. They don’t have anything to verify against however. So if someone malicous had gained access to my account, they could just enter their own number and the account is theirs to keep I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This actually happened to someone I know, with PayPal. She got a spammy looking thing several years ago from PayPal for email validation, that she didn’t request, and like a good Netizen she ignored it. Recently she decided to migrate her PayPal account to that email, only to find that original PayPal account was somehow still active, in spite of being unverified. Requests to change the password go to someone else’s phone (which they ignore), and PayPal has no process to fix it. They can’t delete the account from being associated with that email, even though they know the email is unverified, and that email can’t be used to verify another account.
Nobody knows how to get PayPal to fix it. One Redditor claimed to get attention by filing a complaint with the San Jose BBB, but that seems to be too much effort.
I’ve got a buddy that had a similar issue with Origin (now EA Desktop)… He can’t access his games anymore because he used an email that is no longer operated and he has not longer access to it… So he is basically fucked because EA won’t do shit for him.
This is kinda standard practice for many of the tech companies… I’ve had to provide such information to Google, I think I declined last time but it was some rights for Youtube that time, it’s also something that Facebook do ask some users if they think you’re not using your real name…
I totally get your sentiment about this.
Microsoft locked my account (one week after forcing me to migrate from my Mojang account), and they require a phone number for “verification”. They don’t have anything to verify against however. So if someone malicous had gained access to my account, they could just enter their own number and the account is theirs to keep I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This actually happened to someone I know, with PayPal. She got a spammy looking thing several years ago from PayPal for email validation, that she didn’t request, and like a good Netizen she ignored it. Recently she decided to migrate her PayPal account to that email, only to find that original PayPal account was somehow still active, in spite of being unverified. Requests to change the password go to someone else’s phone (which they ignore), and PayPal has no process to fix it. They can’t delete the account from being associated with that email, even though they know the email is unverified, and that email can’t be used to verify another account.
Nobody knows how to get PayPal to fix it. One Redditor claimed to get attention by filing a complaint with the San Jose BBB, but that seems to be too much effort.
I’ve got a buddy that had a similar issue with Origin (now EA Desktop)… He can’t access his games anymore because he used an email that is no longer operated and he has not longer access to it… So he is basically fucked because EA won’t do shit for him.